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8 Version 2.39
9
10 Major new features:
11
12 * A new tunable, glibc.cpu.plt_rewrite, can be used to enable PLT
13 rewrite on x86-64. When enabled with non-lazy binding, the dynamic
14 linker will rewrite indirect branches in PLT with direct branches.
15
16 * Sync with Linux kernel 6.6 shadow stack interface. The --enable-cet
17 configure option is only supported on x86-64.
18
19 * struct statvfs now has an f_type member, equal to the f_type statfs member;
20 on the Hurd this was always available under a reserved name,
21 and under Linux a spare has been allocated: it was always zero
22 in previous versions of glibc, and zero is not a valid result.
23
24 * On Linux, the functions posix_spawnattr_getcgroup_np and
25 posix_spawnattr_setcgroup_np have been added, along with the
26 POSIX_SPAWN_SETCGROUP flag. They allow posix_spawn and posix_spawnp
27 to set the cgroupv2 in the new process in a race-free manner. These
28 functions are GNU extensions and require a kernel with clone3 support.
29
30 * On Linux, the pidfd_spawn and pidfd_spawp functions have been added.
31 They have a similar prototype and semantic as posix_spawn, but instead of
32 returning a process ID, they return a file descriptor that can be used
33 along other pidfd functions (like pidfd_send_signal, poll, or waitid).
34 The pidfd functionality avoids the issue of PID reuse with the traditional
35 posix_spawn interface.
36
37 * On Linux, the pidfd_getpid function has been added. It allows retrieving
38 the process ID associated with the process file descriptor created by
39 pid_spawn, fork_np, or pidfd_open.
40
41 * scanf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
42 arguments pointing to types intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or
43 uint_leastN_t (for example, %w32d to read int32_t or int_least32_t in
44 decimal, or %w32x to read uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal)
45 and the wfN format length modifiers for arguments pointing to types
46 int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as specified in draft ISO C2X.
47
48 * A new tunable, glibc.mem.decorate_maps, can be used to add additional
49 information on underlying memory allocated by the glibc (for instance,
50 on thread stack created by pthread_create or memory allocated by
51 malloc).
52
53 * The <stdbit.h> header has been added from ISO C2X, with
54 stdc_leading_zeros, stdc_leading_ones, stdc_trailing_zeros,
55 stdc_trailing_ones, stdc_first_leading_zero, stdc_first_leading_one,
56 stdc_first_trailing_zero, stdc_first_trailing_one, stdc_count_zeros,
57 stdc_count_ones, stdc_has_single_bit, stdc_bit_width, stdc_bit_floor
58 and stdc_bit_ceil function families, each having functions for
59 unsigned char, unsigned short, unsigned int, unsigned long int and
60 unsigned long long int, and a type-generic macro.
61
62 * On AArch64 new symbols were added to libmvec and now math.h has
63 annotations to allow GCC 9 or newer to auto-vectorize calls to the
64 following scalar math functions when -ffast-math is specified:
65 acos, acosf, asin, asinf, atan, atanf, atan2, atan2f, cos, cosf,
66 exp, expf, exp10, exp10f, exp2, exp2f, expm1, expm1f, log, logf,
67 log10, log10f, log1p, log1pf, log2, log2f, sin, sinf, tan, tanf.
68
69 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
70
71 * The ldconfig program now skips file names containing ';' or ending in
72 ".dpkg.tmp" or ".dpkg.new", to avoid examining temporary files created
73 by the RPM and dpkg package managers.
74
75 * libcrypt has been removed from the GNU C Library. The configure
76 options "--enable-crypt" and "--enable-nss-crypt" are no longer
77 available. <crypt.h>, libcrypt.a, and libcrypt.so.1 will not be
78 installed. For now <unistd.h> continues to declare the crypt
79 function by default, to avoid introducing vulnerabilities into
80 existing applications due to a missing prototype. This declaration
81 is deprecated and may be removed in a future glibc release.
82
83 The replacement for libcrypt is libxcrypt, maintained separately from
84 GNU libc, but available under compatible licensing terms, and providing
85 binary backward compatibility with the former libcrypt. It is currently
86 distributed from <https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt/>.
87
88 As a consequence of this removal, GNU libc no longer makes any use of
89 the NSS cryptography library (Network Security Services; not to be
90 confused with Name Service Switch). Distributors of binary packages
91 of GNU libc are advised to check whether their build processes can be
92 simplified.
93
94 * The dynamic linker calls the malloc and free functions in more cases
95 during TLS access if a shared object with dynamic TLS is loaded and
96 unloaded. This can result in an infinite recursion if a malloc
97 replacement library or its dependencies use dynamic TLS instead of
98 initial-exec TLS.
99
100 * The ia64*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
101
102 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
103
104 * Building on LoongArch requires at a minimum binutils 2.41 for vector
105 instructions.
106
107 Security related changes:
108
109 The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
110 found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
111
112 GLIBC-SA-2023-0002:
113 getaddrinfo: Stack read overflow in no-aaaa mode (CVE-2023-4527)
114
115 GLIBC-SA-2023-0003:
116 getaddrinfo: Potential use-after-free (CVE-2023-4806)
117
118 GLIBC-SA-2023-0004:
119 tunables: local privilege escalation through buffer overflow
120 (CVE-2023-4911)
121
122 GLIBC-SA-2024-0001:
123 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6246)
124
125 GLIBC-SA-2024-0002:
126 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6779)
127
128 GLIBC-SA-2024-0003:
129 syslog: Integer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6780)
130
131 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
132
133 [14522] localedata: fy_DE: LC_IDENTIFICATION data looks weird
134 [19305] libc: qsort() should return early if (nmemb <= 1)
135 [19479] localedata: gbm_IN: new Garhwali Locale
136 [19924] dynamic-link: TLS performance degradation after dlopen
137 [19956] localedata: ssy_ER: rename from aa_ER@saaho
138 [21719] libc: stdlib/msort : optimizing merge sort
139 [22526] localedata: th_TH LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
140 [23012] localedata: el_GR: Greece now uses the 24h format for time
141 [23172] localedata: miq_NI: Provide actually abbreviated month names
142 [24006] localedata: Cyclic dependencies via copy in locales
143 [24013] localedata: am_pm definitions for es_ES
144 [24386] localedata: crh_RU: new locale
145 [24877] localedata: [Redundant Data] Remove redundant data between
146 en_NZ and en_AU
147 [25868] localedata: Incorrect trailing spaces in weekday names for
148 nn_NO
149 [26752] localedata: Please add the new locale zgh_MA
150 [27069] dynamic-link: Need a way to tell if a tunable is set by user
151 [27163] localedata: Error on test glk_IR with localedef
152 [27312] localedata: su_ID: new Sundanese locale
153 [27547] manual: "Summary of malloc-Related Functions" shows wrong
154 argument order for `aligned_alloc` and `memalign`
155 [27574] libc: glibc should probably not define __WORDSIZE=64 for
156 __sparcv9
157 [27601] localedata: License information update in
158 localedata/locales/ast_ES
159 [28558] localedata: it_IT LC_MONETARY outdated p_cs_precedes and
160 n_cs_precedes
161 [28787] localedata: Add information for Occitan
162 [29039] dynamic-link: Corrupt DTV after reuse of a TLS module ID
163 following dlclose with unused TLS
164 [29486] localedata: New Zealand locales (en_NZ & mi_NZ) first day of
165 week should be Monday
166 [29504] localedata: Incorrect/misleading Time Format For ms_MY (AM/PM)
167 [29506] localedata: UTF-8 HANGUL SYLLABLE bugs
168 [30349] libc: Support returning a pidfd from posix_spawn()
169 [30412] localedata: d_t_fmt in id_ID uses %r placeholder but am_pm and
170 t_fmt_ampm are undefined
171 [30605] localedata: New locale for Komi language
172 [30649] localedata: [PATCH] Add transliteration of common emojis to
173 smileys
174 [30694] locale: The iconv program no longer tells the user which given
175 encoding name was wrong
176 [30709] nscd: nscd fails to build with cleanup handler if built with
177 -fexceptions
178 [30737] libc: fdopendir() is not robust - returns bogus DIR* instead
179 of flagging an error
180 [30740] build: [m68k] undefined reference to
181 `_wordcopy_fwd_dest_aligned'
182 [30745] libc: Slight bug in cache info codes for x86
183 [30750] network: Unaligned accesses in resolver
184 [30773] math: [m68k] busybox awk is broken (lshift.S related)
185 [30789] libc: [2.38 Regression] sem_open will fail on multithreaded
186 scenarios when semaphore file doesn't exist (O_CREAT)
187 [30800] nscd: Improper assert in prune_cache triggers if clock jumps
188 backwards
189 [30804] libc: F_GETLK, F_SETLK, and F_SETLKW value change for
190 powerpc64 with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
191 [30842] network: Stack read overflow in getaddrinfo in no-aaaa mode
192 (CVE-2023-4527)
193 [30843] network: potential use-after-free in getcanonname
194 (CVE-2023-4806)
195 [30854] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.1.0
196 [30884] network: Memory leak in getaddrinfo after fix for bug 30843
197 (CVE-2023-5156)
198 [30932] libc: Fortify Source has false-positives when too many files
199 are open
200 [30945] malloc: Core affinity setting incurs lock contentions between
201 threads
202 [30960] math: signed integer overflow in
203 glibc/sysdeps/s390/fpu/feenablxcpt.c
204 [30964] locale: Number grouping check mishandles multibyte thousands
205 separator
206 [30981] dynamic-link: dlclose does not properly implement force-first
207 handling
208 [30988] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
209 ppc, ppc64, ppc64le
210 [30989] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
211 i386
212 [30990] libc: fesetexceptflag raises floating-point exception traps on
213 i386, x86_64
214 [30998] math: fesetexceptflag clears too many floating-point exception
215 flags on alpha
216 [31019] manual: The documentation of feenableexcept is incomplete
217 [31022] math: feupdateenv (FE_DFL_ENV) crashes on riscv
218 [31035] libc: Library search path terminates on relative non-directory
219 name
220 [31042] libc: [s390x] .init and .fini padding
221 [31068] libc: sysdeps: sparc: invalid data access in memset due to
222 regression
223 [31078] manual: Code example in "Noncanonical Mode Example" has unused
224 'char *name;'
225 [31086] localedata: Errors in Tibetan, Dzongkha data
226 [31113] string: Wrong unwind information for rawmemchr on aarch64
227 [31151] libc: [RISC-V] missing support for profile/audit PLT setup
228 [31163] nss: getaddrinfo returns EAI_NONAME in oom situation
229 [31183] stdio: Wide stream buffer size reduced MB_LEN_MAX bytes after
230 bug 17522 fix
231 [31184] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-tlsgap
232 [31185] dynamic-link: Incorrect thread point access in
233 _dl_tlsdesc_undefweak and _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic
234 [31187] dynamic-link: Some CET tests fail with GCC 14
235 [31204] localedata: Fix decimal point and thousands separator for
236 uz_UZ
237 [31205] localedata: Inconsistent (mon_)grouping formats
238 [31218] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite overflows large displacement on x32
239 [31221] localedata: Add localedata for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
240 [31230] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite failed without SELinux
241 [31239] localedata: anp_IN locale: abbreviated month names are the
242 same as the full month names
243 [31244] nptl: pthread_cancel hangs on sparc32
244 [31257] localedata: Sync with CLDR: “Turkey” -> “Türkiye”
245 [31266] string: sparc: string/tst-memmove-overflow fails on 32-bit
246 sparcv9
247 [31276] libc: Wrong condition for heap allocation in qsort_r
248 \f
249 Version 2.38
250
251 Major new features:
252
253 * When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the
254 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
255 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
256 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
257 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
258 wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq. Similarly, the
259 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
260 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
261 vfscanf, fwscanf, wscanf, swscanf, vfwscanf, vwscanf, vswscanf; those
262 functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or
263 without such a prefix and independent of standards mode.
264
265 * PRIb*, PRIB* and SCNb* macros from C2X have been added to
266 <inttypes.h>.
267
268 * printf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
269 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
270 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
271 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
272 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
273 specified in draft ISO C2X.
274
275 * A new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb, can be used to disable
276 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
277
278 * Support for x86_64 running on Hurd has been added. This port requires
279 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
280
281 - x86_64-gnu
282
283 * Vector math library libmvec support has been added to AArch64. It
284 requires GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via
285 "--disable-mathvec", however that is not a supported configuration as
286 it changes the ABI. The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI,
287 they are declared in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
288
289 * The strlcpy and strlcat functions have been added. They are derived
290 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
291
292 * A new configure option, "--enable-fortify-source", can be used to build the
293 GNU C Library with _FORTIFY_SOURCE. The level of fortification can either be
294 provided, or is set to the highest value supported by the compiler. If not
295 explicitly enabled, then fortify source is forcibly disabled so to keep
296 original behavior unchanged.
297
298 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
299
300 * libcrypt is no longer built by default; one may use the "--enable-crypt"
301 option to build libcrypt. libcrypt is likely to be removed from the
302 GNU C Library in a future release, so it is recommended that
303 applications port away from it to an alternative such as libxcrypt.
304
305 * In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the
306 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
307 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
308 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
309 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
310 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
311
312 * The "--disable-experimental-malloc" option is no longer available. The
313 per-thread cache can still be disabled per-application using tunables
314 (glibc.malloc.tcache_count set to zero).
315
316 * The configure option "--enable-tunables" has been removed. The tunable
317 feature is now always enabled.
318
319 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
320
321 * Building libmvec on AArch64 requires at a minimum GCC 10.1.0 for SVE
322 ACLE.
323
324 Security related changes:
325
326 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
327 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
328 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
329 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
330 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
331 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
332
333 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
334
335 [178] string: Please add strlcpy and strlcat (attached)
336 [14697] nptl: Behavior of exit is nonconformant with respect to
337 threads and stdio
338 [15142] stdio: Missing locking in _IO_cleanup
339 [18096] glob: null deref in wordexp/parse_dollars/parse_arith
340 [18906] stdio: fopen: ccs value may affect open mode
341 [24466] stdio: Feature request: provide special printf formats for
342 intXX_t
343 [25457] nss: hosts lookup fails for ipv4mapped ipv6 addresses
344 [28519] libc: system and popen should pass "--" between /bin/sh and
345 argument
346 [29016] stdio: popen() sets errno to ENOMEM when shell does not exist
347 [29591] string: wcsnlen length can overflow in page cross case.
348 [30053] time: strftime %s returns -1 after 2038 on 32 bits systems
349 [30068] stdio: incorrect printf output for integers with thousands
350 separator and width field (CVE-2023-25139)
351 [30111] time: support_descriptors_list fails after 2038 on 32 bits
352 systems
353 [30125] dynamic-link: [regression, bisected] glibc-2.37 creates new
354 symlink for libraries without soname
355 [30130] math: [s390] The _FPU_SETCW macro yields compile error with
356 Clang
357 [30156] time: Potential ntp_gettime abi break
358 [30235] libc: Missing fallback in getlogin if loginuid is unset
359 [30258] dynamic-link: sprof cannot read and display shared object
360 profiling data correctly
361 [30263] libc: Add test coverage for abs(), labs(), and llabs().
362 [30305] math: Incorrect asm constraint in feraiseexcept on x86-64
363 [30402] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-glibcelf
364 [30425] dynamic-link: Symbol lookup during dlclose may fail
365 unnecessarily
366 [30435] dynamic-link: Root dir wrongly marked as nonexist in open_path
367 [30477] libc: [RISCV]: time64 does not work on riscv32
368 [30515] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object incorrectly returns 1 during
369 early startup
370 [30527] network: resolv_conf lock not unlocked on allocation failure
371 [30550] math: powerpc64le: GCC-specific code for isinf() is being used
372 on clang
373 [30555] string: strerror can incorrectly return NULL
374 [30579] malloc: trim_threshold in realloc lead to high memory usage
375 [30662] nscd: Group and password cache use errno in place of errval
376 \f
377 Version 2.37
378
379 Major new features:
380
381 * The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
382 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
383 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
384 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
385
386 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
387
388 * The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
389 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
390 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
391 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
392
393 Security related changes:
394
395 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
396 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
397 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
398 portion of the contents of the heap.
399
400 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
401
402 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
403 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
404 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
405 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
406 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
407 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
408 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
409 redirection headers
410 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
411 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
412 first if in a cycle
413 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
414 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
415 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
416 gethostbyname and other functions
417 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
418 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
419 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
420 wrong family
421 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
422 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
423 failed!
424 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
425 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
426 FAIL_UNSUPPORTED
427 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
428 segfault on alpha
429 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
430 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
431 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
432 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
433 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
434 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
435 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
436 reuses namespace
437 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
438 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
439 futexes on qemu-user
440 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
441 printed
442 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
443 whitespace
444 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
445 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
446 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
447 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
448 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
449 file support
450 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
451 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
452 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
453 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
454 cache is enabled
455 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
456 BMI2 instructions
457 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
458 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
459 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
460 platforms
461 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
462 optimizations
463 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
464 thousands grouping
465 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
466 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
467 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
468 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
469 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
470 aux.S: No such file or directory)
471 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
472 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
473 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
474 coincides with offset change
475 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
476 length in fortify mode
477 \f
478 Version 2.36
479
480 Major new features:
481
482 * Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
483 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
484 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
485 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
486 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
487 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
488
489 * On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
490 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
491 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
492
493 * On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
494 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
495 by the pidfd.
496
497 * On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
498 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
499 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
500 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
501
502 * The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
503 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
504 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
505 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
506 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
507 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
508 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
509 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
510 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
511 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
512 validation by applications.
513
514 * On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
515 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
516 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
517 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
518 with namespaces.
519
520 * localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
521 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
522 unpredictable output.
523
524 * Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
525 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
526 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
527 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
528 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
529 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
530 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
531 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
532
533 * The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
534 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
535 quality randomness from the kernel.
536
537 * Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
538 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
539 ABI is supported:
540
541 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
542
543 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
544
545 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
546
547 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
548 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
549 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
550
551 * The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
552 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
553 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
554 when libc.so is issued directly.
555
556 * On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
557
558 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
559
560 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
561 return different result with versioned "foo"
562 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
563 mess
564 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
565 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
566 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
567 calls dlclose
568 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
569 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
570 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
571 enforced
572 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
573 deadlock
574 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
575 format
576 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
577 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
578 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
579 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
580 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
581 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
582 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
583 other standards.
584 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
585 from the stack
586 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
587 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
588 (breaks test isolation)
589 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
590 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
591 __convert_scm_timestamps
592 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
593 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
594 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
595 missing libraries
596 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyond 2038
597 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
598 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
599 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
600 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
601 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
602 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
603 SUCCESS=MERGE
604 [28936] build: nm: No such file
605 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
606 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
607 clobbers errno
608 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
609 bench.
610 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
611 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
612 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
613 /proc/self/fd/
614 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
615 on ENOENT and EACCES
616 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
617 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
618 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
619 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
620 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
621 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
622 is promoted to global scope
623 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
624 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
625 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
626 broke ld.so
627 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
628 AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
629 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
630 failure
631 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
632 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
633 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
634 before '__fortified_attr_access'
635 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
636 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
637 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
638 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
639 value for filling after \0
640 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
641 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
642 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
643 aware
644 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
645 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
646 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
647 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
648 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
649 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
650 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
651 line 184
652 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
653 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
654 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
655 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
656 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
657 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
658 missing on microblaze with largefile
659 \f
660 Version 2.35
661
662 Major new features:
663
664 * Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
665 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
666 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
667
668 * Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
669 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
670
671 * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
672 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
673 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
674 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
675 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
676 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
677 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
678 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
679 glibc, and must be installed.
680
681 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
682 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
683 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
684
685 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
686 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
687
688 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
689 fMxfmafNx functions.
690
691 * <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
692 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
693 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
694 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
695 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
696 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
697
698 * <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
699 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
700 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
701 M_SQRT1_2f.
702
703 * The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
704 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
705
706 * The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
707 macro in <tgmath.h>.
708
709 * The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
710
711 * printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
712 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
713 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
714
715 * A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
716 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
717 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
718 object dependency cases.
719
720 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
721 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
722 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
723 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
724
725 * ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
726 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
727 return value is only used for its boolean status.
728
729 * Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
730 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
731 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
732 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
733 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
734 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
735 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
736 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
737 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
738 Restartable Sequences.
739
740 * A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
741 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
742
743 * All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
744 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
745 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
746 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
747 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
748 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
749 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
750 configuration.
751
752 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
753 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
754 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
755 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
756 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
757 huge pages.
758
759 * The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
760 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
761
762 * The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
763 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
764 address.
765
766 * Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
767 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
768 ABI is supported:
769
770 - or1k-linux-gnu
771
772 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
773 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
774
775 * A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
776 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
777 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
778 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
779 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
780
781 * On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
782 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
783
784 * The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
785 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
786 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
787
788 * Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
789 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
790 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
791 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
792 bounds).
793
794 * The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
795 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
796
797 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
798
799 * On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
800 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
801 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
802
803 * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
804 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
805
806 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
807 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
808
809 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
810
811 * Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
812
813 * The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
814 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
815 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
816
817 * The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
818 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
819 catching coredumps and backtraces.
820
821 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
822 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
823 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
824
825 * The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
826 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
827 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
828
829 * The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
830 support prelink PIE binaries.
831
832 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
833
834 * The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
835 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
836 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
837 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
838 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
839
840 * The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
841 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
842 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
843 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
844
845 Security related changes:
846
847 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
848 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
849 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
850
851 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
852 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
853
854 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
855 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
856 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
857
858 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
859 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
860 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
861 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
862 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
863
864 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
865
866 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
867 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
868 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
869 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
870 many dsos
871 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
872 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
873 degradation
874 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
875 loaded with dlmopen
876 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
877 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
878 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
879 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
880 ID whose lifetime has not ended
881 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
882 (CVE-2022-23219)
883 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
884 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
885 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
886 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
887 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
888 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
889 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
890 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
891 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
892 --enable-initfini-array
893 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
894 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
895 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
896 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
897 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
898 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
899 empty
900 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
901 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
902 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
903 built with ld.lld
904 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
905 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
906 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
907 2.34
908 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
909 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
910 robustness
911 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
912 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
913 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
914 AT_MINSIGSTKSZ
915 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
916 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
917 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
918 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
919 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
920 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
921 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
922 file
923 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
924 only dynamic section
925 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
926 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
927 recvmsg()
928 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
929 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
930 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
931 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
932 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
933 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
934 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
935 C2X
936 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
937 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
938 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
939 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
940 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
941 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
942 globalmod1.so
943 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
944 systems with TIMESIZE=64
945 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
946 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
947 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
948 spurious NUL character on state reset
949 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
950 incorrect
951 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
952 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
953 execution test
954 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
955 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
956 hppa
957 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
958 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
959 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
960 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
961 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
962 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
963 crashes
964 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
965 binutils changes
966 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
967 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
968 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
969 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
970 is not useful
971 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
972 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
973 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
974 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
975 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
976 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
977 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
978 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
979 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
980 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
981 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
982 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
983 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
984 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
985 (CVE-2022-23218)
986 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
987 (CVE-2021-3999)
988 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
989 results (CVE-2021-3998)
990 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
991 in Systemtap probes
992 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
993 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
994 x86-64-baseline
995 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
996 with no closing ]
997 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
998 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
999 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
1000
1001 \f
1002 Version 2.34
1003
1004 Major new features:
1005
1006 * In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
1007 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
1008 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
1009 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
1010 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
1011 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
1012 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
1013 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
1014 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
1015 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
1016 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
1017 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
1018 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
1019 potentially exposing application bugs.
1020
1021 * When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
1022 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
1023 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
1024 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
1025
1026 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
1027 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
1028 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
1029 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
1030 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
1031 Arm SVE.
1032
1033 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
1034 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
1035 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
1036
1037 * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
1038 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
1039 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
1040 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
1041
1042 * The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
1043
1044 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
1045 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
1046 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
1047 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
1048 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
1049
1050 * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
1051 --disable-scv configure option.
1052
1053 * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
1054 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
1055 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
1056 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
1057 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
1058 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
1059 version of 5.1.
1060
1061 * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
1062 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
1063 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
1064 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
1065 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
1066 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
1067 that directory.
1068
1069 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
1070 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
1071
1072 * The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
1073 since Austin Group issue 62 dropped the async-signal-safe requirement for
1074 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
1075 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
1076 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
1077 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
1078 is currently a GNU extension.
1079
1080 * On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
1081 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
1082
1083 * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
1084 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1085 although it is also present in other systems.
1086
1087 * The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
1088 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
1089 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1090 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
1091
1092 * When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
1093 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
1094 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
1095
1096 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1097
1098 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
1099 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
1100 instead.
1101
1102 * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
1103 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1104 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
1105
1106 * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
1107 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1108 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
1109
1110 * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
1111 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
1112
1113 * The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
1114
1115 * Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
1116 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
1117 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
1118 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
1119 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
1120 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
1121 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
1122 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
1123 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
1124 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
1125 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
1126
1127 * Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
1128 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
1129 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
1130 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
1131 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
1132 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
1133 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
1134 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
1135
1136 * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
1137 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
1138 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
1139 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
1140 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
1141 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
1142 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
1143
1144 * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
1145 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
1146 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
1147 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
1148 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
1149 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
1150 upgrade or downgrade process.
1151
1152 * The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
1153 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
1154 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
1155
1156 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1157 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
1158 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
1159 no longer have any effect on malloc.
1160
1161 * Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
1162 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
1163 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
1164 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
1165 this functionality back.
1166
1167 * The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
1168 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
1169 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
1170 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1171
1172 * The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
1173 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
1174 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
1175 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
1176 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
1177 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
1178 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
1179 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
1180 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
1181
1182 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1183
1184 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
1185 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
1186 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
1187 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
1188
1189 Security related changes:
1190
1191 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
1192 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
1193 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
1194 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
1195
1196 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
1197 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
1198 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
1199
1200 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
1201 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
1202 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
1203
1204 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1205
1206 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
1207 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
1208 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
1209 given integer (closefrom)
1210 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
1211 name containing multi-byte character(s)
1212 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
1213 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
1214 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
1215 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
1216 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
1217 random thread
1218 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
1219 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
1220 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
1221 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
1222 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
1223 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
1224 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
1225 manual is incorrect
1226 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
1227 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
1228 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
1229 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
1230 pthread_create and dlopen
1231 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
1232 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
1233 when non-root user changes priority
1234 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
1235 dlopen
1236 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
1237 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
1238 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
1239 ordered correctly
1240 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
1241 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
1242 data.
1243 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
1244 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
1245 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
1246 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
1247 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
1248 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
1249 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
1250 the right free implementation
1251 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
1252 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
1253 shm_open to pick wrong directory
1254 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
1255 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
1256 protector=all)
1257 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
1258 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
1259 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
1260 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
1261 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
1262 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
1263 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
1264 uninitialized
1265 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
1266 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
1267 system calls
1268 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
1269 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
1270 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
1271 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
1272 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
1273 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
1274 deployments
1275 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
1276 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
1277 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
1278 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
1279 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
1280 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
1281 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
1282 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
1283 is present
1284 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
1285 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
1286 protector=all
1287 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
1288 information for the current directory
1289 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
1290 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
1291 dl_runtime_resolve_*
1292 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
1293 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
1294 containers
1295 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
1296 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
1297 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
1298 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
1299 INT_MAX
1300 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
1301 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
1302 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
1303 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
1304 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
1305 tries resolving them lazily
1306 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
1307 libthread_db
1308 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
1309 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
1310 argument
1311 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
1312 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
1313 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
1314 not set ENOMEM
1315 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
1316 randomization
1317 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
1318 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
1319 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
1320 IS_ERR_VALUE
1321 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
1322 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
1323 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
1324 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
1325 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
1326 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
1327 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
1328 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
1329 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
1330 with n >= 0x80000000
1331 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
1332 thread never allocated anything
1333 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
1334 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
1335 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
1336 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
1337 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
1338 on older kernels
1339 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
1340 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
1341 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
1342 AMD64 cpus
1343 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
1344 terminator
1345
1346 \f
1347 Version 2.33
1348
1349 Major new features:
1350
1351 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
1352 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
1353 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
1354
1355 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
1356 to change argv[0] string.
1357
1358 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
1359 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
1360 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
1361 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
1362 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
1363 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
1364 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
1365 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
1366 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
1367
1368 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
1369 information and library search path diagnostics.
1370
1371 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
1372 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
1373 larger than fit in an integer.
1374
1375 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
1376
1377 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
1378 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1379
1380 - rv32imac ilp32
1381 - rv32imafdc ilp32
1382 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
1383
1384 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
1385 2.28.
1386
1387 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
1388 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
1389 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
1390 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
1391 fortification.
1392
1393 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1394
1395 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
1396 mallinfo2 instead.
1397
1398 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
1399 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
1400 Instead, the default implementation is used.
1401
1402 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
1403 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
1404 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
1405 prlimit.
1406
1407 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
1408 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
1409 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
1410
1411 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
1412 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
1413 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1414 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1415 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
1416 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
1417
1418 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
1419 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
1420 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
1421 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
1422 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
1423 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
1424 loaded.
1425
1426 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1427
1428 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
1429 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
1430 attempts to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
1431 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
1432 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
1433 perform any adjustments.
1434
1435 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
1436 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
1437 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
1438 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
1439
1440 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
1441
1442 Security related changes:
1443
1444 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
1445 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
1446 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
1447 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1448 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
1449
1450 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1451 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1452 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
1453
1454 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
1455 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
1456
1457 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
1458 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
1459
1460 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1461
1462 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
1463 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1464 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1465 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1466 AT_EACCESS
1467 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
1468 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
1469 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
1470 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1471 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1472 with GCC
1473 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1474 stack-protector=all
1475 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1476 cases
1477 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1478 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1479 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1480 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1481 changing gnuc version
1482 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1483 incorrect
1484 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1485 bits
1486 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1487 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1488 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1489 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1490 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
1491 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized
1492 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
1493 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1494 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1495 too much stack space
1496 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1497 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1498 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1499 with optimization.
1500 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1501 anymore
1502 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1503 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1504 non-FMA4 system
1505 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1506 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1507 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1508 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1509 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1510 getaddrinfo
1511 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1512 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1513 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1514 fault
1515 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1516 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1517 at the end of a memory mapping
1518 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1519 by the caller to the kernel
1520 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1521 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1522 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1523 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1524 monotonic clocks
1525 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1526 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1527 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1528 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1529 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1530 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1531 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1532 one element
1533 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1534 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1535 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1536 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1537 lazy bound
1538 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1539 PI mutexes
1540 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1541 not safe
1542 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1543 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1544 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1545 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1546 platform
1547 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1548 startup code
1549 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1550 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1551 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1552 protected
1553 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1554 only since 2.31
1555 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1556 locked
1557 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1558 aligned
1559 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1560 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1561 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1562 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1563 detection logic
1564 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1565 pclose(3))
1566 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1567 setup
1568 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1569 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1570 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1571 work
1572 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1573 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1574 [27177] dynamic-link:
1575 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1576 work
1577 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1578 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1579 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1580 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
1581
1582 \f
1583 Version 2.32
1584
1585 Major new features:
1586
1587 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1588 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
1589 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1590
1591 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
1592
1593 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1594 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1595 Three ABIs are supported:
1596
1597 - arc-linux-gnu
1598 - arc-linux-gnuhf
1599 - arceb-linux-gnu
1600
1601 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
1602 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1603
1604 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
1605 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1606
1607 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
1608 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
1609 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
1610 this option.
1611
1612 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
1613 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1614 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1615
1616 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
1617 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
1618 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
1619
1620 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1621 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1622 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1623 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1624 libpthread.
1625
1626 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
1627 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
1628 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1629 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
1630 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
1631 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1632
1633 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1634 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1635
1636 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
1637 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1638 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
1639 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1640 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1641 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1642
1643 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1644 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1645
1646 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1647 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
1648 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1649 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1650 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
1651 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1652 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1653 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1654 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1655 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1656 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1657 BTI compatible.
1658
1659 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1660
1661 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
1662 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1663 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1664 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1665 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1666 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1667 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1668
1669 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
1670 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1671 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1672 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1673 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1674 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1675 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
1676 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
1677 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
1678
1679 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1680 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1681 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1682 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1683 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
1684
1685 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1686 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1687 was not declared in any header file.
1688
1689 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1690 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1691 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1692 sigaction functions instead.
1693
1694 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1695 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1696
1697 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1698 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1699 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1700 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1701 strsignal instead.
1702
1703 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1704 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1705 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
1706 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1707 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1708
1709 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1710 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1711 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1712 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1713
1714 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1715 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1716 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1717 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1718 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1719 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1720 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
1721
1722 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
1723 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1724 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1725 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1726 flavor of secure RPC.)
1727
1728 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1729 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1730 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1731 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1732 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1733 object, to enable the hooks.
1734
1735 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1736 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1737 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1738 LDAP.
1739
1740 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1741
1742 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
1743 long double redirects.
1744
1745 Security related changes:
1746
1747 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1748 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1749 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1750
1751 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1752 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1753 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
1754
1755 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1756 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1757
1758 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1759 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1760 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1761 TALOS-2020-1019).
1762
1763 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1764
1765 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1766 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1767 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1768 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1769 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1770 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1771 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1772 filtee has constructor
1773 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1774 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1775 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1776 character entities for infinity & pi
1777 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1778 segfaults in applications
1779 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
1780 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit conversion in
1781 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1782 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1783 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1784 function with -mlong-double-64
1785 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1786 binding
1787 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1788 ld.so.cache
1789 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1790 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1791 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1792 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1793 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1794 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1795 linker
1796 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1797 dynamically loaded dsos
1798 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1799 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1800 access
1801 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1802 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1803 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1804 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1805 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1806 stale configuration forever
1807 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1808 (CVE-2020-10029)
1809 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1810 defaults to PIE
1811 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1812 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1813 (CVE-2020-6096)
1814 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1815 on 32 bit and old kernel
1816 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1817 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1818 Occitan
1819 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1820 amount of sigset_t bytes
1821 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1822 strings
1823 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1824 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1825 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1826 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1827 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1828 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1829 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1830 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1831 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1832 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1833 size_t
1834 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1835 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1836 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1837 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1838 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1839 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1840 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1841 cpu=power9
1842 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1843 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1844 segfault
1845 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1846 exiting detached thread
1847 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1848 for x32
1849 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1850 ERANGE
1851 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1852 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1853 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1854 dependencies in audit mode
1855 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1856 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1857 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1858 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1859 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1860 input
1861 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1862 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1863 preserve r2
1864 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1865 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1866 variables
1867 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1868 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1869 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1870 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1871 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1872 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1873 corruption in memset
1874
1875 \f
1876 Version 2.31
1877
1878 Major new features:
1879
1880 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1881 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1882 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1883 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1884 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1885 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
1886
1887 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1888 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1889 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1890 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1891
1892 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
1893 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
1894 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1895
1896 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1897
1898 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1899 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1900 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1901 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1902 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1903 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1904 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1905 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1906
1907 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1908
1909 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1910 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1911 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1912 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1913 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1914 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
1915
1916 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
1917 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1918 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1919
1920 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1921 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1922 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1923 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1924
1925 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1926 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1927 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1928 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1929 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1930 made this no longer practical.
1931
1932 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1933 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1934 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1935 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1936 release.)
1937
1938 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1939 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1940 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1941
1942 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1943 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1944 using clock_gettime instead.
1945
1946 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1947 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1948 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1949 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1950 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1951
1952 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1953 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1954 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1955 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1956
1957 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1958 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1959 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1960 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1961 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1962 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1963
1964 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1965 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1966 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1967 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1968 offset API.
1969
1970 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1971 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1972 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
1973
1974 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1975 configurations.
1976
1977 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1978 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1979 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1980 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1981 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1982
1983 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
1984 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1985 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1986 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1987 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1988 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1989 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1990 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1991
1992 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1993 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1994
1995 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1996 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1997 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1998 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1999 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
2000 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
2001
2002 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2003
2004 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
2005 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
2006 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
2007
2008 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
2009 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
2010 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
2011
2012 Security related changes:
2013
2014 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
2015 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
2016
2017 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
2018 environment variable during program execution after a security
2019 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
2020 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
2021 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
2022
2023 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2024
2025 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
2026 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
2027 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
2028 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
2029 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
2030 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
2031 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
2032 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
2033 linking failure
2034 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
2035 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
2036 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
2037 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
2038 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
2039 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
2040 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
2041 constructors/destructors is not fatal
2042 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
2043 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
2044 7408-2005
2045 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
2046 with localedef
2047 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
2048 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
2049 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
2050 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
2051 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
2052 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
2053 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
2054 utmp entries
2055 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
2056 ABSOLUTE ABI
2057 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
2058 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
2059 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
2060 (stringop-overflow error)
2061 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
2062 functions other can lead to crashes
2063 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
2064 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
2065 unconditionally
2066 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
2067 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
2068 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
2069 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
2070 still can fail with an error
2071 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
2072 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
2073 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
2074 initialized correctly
2075 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
2076 -frewrite-includes
2077 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
2078 value to an unsigned
2079 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
2080 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
2081 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
2082 protection
2083 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
2084 ifunc variant.
2085 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
2086 al. for Clang++
2087 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
2088 (Slovenian)
2089 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
2090 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
2091 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
2092 with -std=c11
2093 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
2094 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
2095 part
2096 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
2097 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
2098 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
2099 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
2100 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
2101 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
2102
2103 \f
2104 Version 2.30
2105
2106 Major new features:
2107
2108 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2109 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
2110 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2111
2112 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
2113 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
2114
2115 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
2116 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
2117 to the callback function.
2118
2119 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
2120
2121 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
2122 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
2123 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
2124
2125 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
2126
2127 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
2128 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
2129 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
2130 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
2131 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
2132
2133 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
2134 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
2135 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
2136 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
2137 link time reference, is gone.
2138
2139 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
2140 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
2141 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
2142 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
2143 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
2144 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
2145 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
2146 the clock choice at initialization time).
2147
2148 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
2149 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
2150 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
2151
2152 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2153
2154 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
2155 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
2156 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
2157 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
2158 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
2159 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
2160 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
2161 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
2162 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
2163
2164 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
2165 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
2166 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
2167 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
2168 since glibc 2.17.
2169
2170 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
2171 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
2172
2173 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
2174 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
2175
2176 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
2177 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
2178
2179 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
2180 BIND_NOW flag.
2181
2182 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
2183 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
2184 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
2185
2186 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
2187 header have been removed.
2188
2189 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2190 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
2191 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
2192 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
2193
2194 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2195
2196 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2197
2198 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2199 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2200
2201 Security related changes:
2202
2203 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
2204 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
2205 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
2206 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
2207 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
2208 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
2209 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
2210
2211 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
2212 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
2213 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
2214
2215 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2216
2217 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
2218 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
2219 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
2220 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
2221 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
2222 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
2223 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
2224 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
2225 invalid input drops valid char
2226 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
2227 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
2228 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
2229 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
2230 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
2231 malloc.h.
2232 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
2233 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
2234 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
2235 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
2236 functions
2237 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
2238 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
2239 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
2240 for long double = double
2241 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
2242 long double = double
2243 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
2244 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
2245 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
2246 long timeouts
2247 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
2248 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
2249 checking for NULL.
2250 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
2251 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
2252 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
2253 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
2254 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
2255 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
2256 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
2257 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
2258 not the default "nor"
2259 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
2260 false positives, change to modern flexible array
2261 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
2262 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
2263 compiler barriers.
2264 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
2265 unnecessary librt dependencies
2266 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
2267 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
2268 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
2269 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
2270 unsorted chunk
2271 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
2272 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
2273 to R_SPARC_H44
2274 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
2275 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
2276 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2277 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
2278 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
2279 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
2280 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
2281 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2282 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
2283 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
2284 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
2285 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
2286 was not used
2287 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
2288 tests
2289 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
2290 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
2291 time_t changes
2292 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
2293 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
2294 kernels and break testing
2295 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
2296 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
2297 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
2298 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
2299 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
2300 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
2301 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
2302 -O3 -march=skylake
2303 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
2304 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
2305 crash
2306 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
2307 linked glibc
2308 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
2309 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
2310 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
2311 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
2312 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
2313 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
2314 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
2315 always implemented in the same library
2316 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
2317 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
2318 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
2319 testroot
2320
2321 \f
2322 Version 2.29
2323
2324 Major new features:
2325
2326 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
2327 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
2328
2329 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
2330 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
2331 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
2332 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
2333 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
2334 configured location.
2335
2336 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
2337
2338 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
2339 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
2340
2341 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
2342 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
2343 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
2344 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
2345 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
2346 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
2347 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
2348 process actually does not use HTM).
2349
2350 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
2351 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
2352 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
2353 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
2354 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
2355 of the same name.
2356
2357 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
2358 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
2359 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
2360 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
2361 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
2362
2363 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
2364 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
2365 supported:
2366 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
2367 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
2368
2369 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
2370 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
2371 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
2372 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
2373 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
2374 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
2375 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
2376
2377 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
2378 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
2379 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
2380
2381 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2382
2383 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
2384 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
2385
2386 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
2387 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
2388 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
2389 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
2390
2391 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
2392 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
2393 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
2394 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
2395 structures.
2396
2397 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
2398 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
2399 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
2400 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
2401 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
2402 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
2403
2404 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
2405 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
2406 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
2407 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
2408 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
2409
2410 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
2411 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
2412 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
2413
2414 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2415
2416 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2417
2418 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
2419 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
2420
2421 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2422 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2423
2424 Security related changes:
2425
2426 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
2427 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
2428 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
2429
2430 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
2431 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
2432 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
2433 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
2434 Reported by H.J. Lu.
2435
2436 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
2437 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
2438 or command injection issues in applications.
2439
2440 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2441
2442 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2443 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2444 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2445 thousands
2446 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2447 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2448 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2449 --param options)
2450 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2451 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2452 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2453 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2454 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2455 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2456 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2457 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2458 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2459 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2460 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2461 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2462 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2463 pointer argument is non-NULL
2464 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2465 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2466 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2467 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2468 multithreads call popen
2469 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2470 and pthread_create fails.
2471 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2472 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2473 constructor
2474 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2475 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2476 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2477 source tree
2478 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2479 float
2480 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2481 one error
2482 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2483 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2484 linker
2485 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2486 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2487 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2488 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2489 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2490 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2491 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2492 filesystems
2493 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2494 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2495 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2496 functions
2497 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2498 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2499 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2500 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2501 have wrong type
2502 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2503 wrong type
2504 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2505 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2506 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2507 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2508 threads
2509 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2510 start.S
2511 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2512 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2513 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2514 powerpc64le
2515 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2516 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2517 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2518 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2519 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2520 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2521 strftime
2522 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2523 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2524 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2525 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2526 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2527 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2528 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2529 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2530 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2531 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2532 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2533 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2534 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2535 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2536 tcache size
2537 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2538 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2539 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2540 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2541 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2542 (CVE-2018-19591)
2543 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2544 nearest rounding mode
2545 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2546 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2547 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2548 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2549 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2550 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2551 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2552 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2553 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2554 error
2555 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2556 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2557 using GCC 8
2558 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2559 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2560 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2561 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2562 ppc64le
2563 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2564 expected result
2565 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2566 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
2567 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2568 sigaltstack
2569 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2570 answers will be rejected)
2571 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
2572
2573 \f
2574 Version 2.28
2575
2576 Major new features:
2577
2578 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2579 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2580 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2581 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2582 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2583 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2584 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2585 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2586 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2587 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2588 archive or binary locales.
2589
2590 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2591 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2592 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2593 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2594 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2595 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2596 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2597 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
2598 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2599 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2600 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2601 validated for i686.
2602
2603 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2604 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2605 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2606 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2607 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2608 field) to indicate such support is required.
2609
2610 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2611 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2612 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2613
2614 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2615 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2616
2617 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2618 fMxaddfNx functions.
2619
2620 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2621 fMxsubfNx functions.
2622
2623 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2624 fMxmulfNx functions.
2625
2626 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2627 fMxdivfNx functions.
2628
2629 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
2630 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
2631 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
2632 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2633 and Kashubian.
2634
2635 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
2636 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
2637
2638 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2639 patches.
2640
2641 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2642 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2643 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2644 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2645 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2646 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2647 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2648 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2649
2650 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2651 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2652 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2653 the fstatat64 function.
2654
2655 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2656 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2657 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2658 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2659 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2660 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2661 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2662 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2663 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2664
2665 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2666 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2667 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2668 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2669 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2670 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2671 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2672 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2673 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2674 results in a load failure now.
2675
2676 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2677 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2678 <threads.h>:
2679
2680 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2681 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2682
2683 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2684 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2685
2686 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2687
2688 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2689 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2690
2691 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2692
2693 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2694
2695 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2696
2697 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2698 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2699 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2700
2701 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2702 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2703 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2704 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2705 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2706 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2707
2708 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2709 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2710 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2711 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2712 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2713 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2714 (Bug #1190.)
2715
2716 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2717 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2718 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2719 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2720 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2721 further explanation.
2722
2723 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2724 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2725 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
2726
2727 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2728
2729 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2730 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2731 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2732
2733 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2734 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2735 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2736 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2737
2738 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2739 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2740 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2741 for this function instead.
2742
2743 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2744 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2745 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2746
2747 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2748 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2749 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2750 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2751
2752 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2753 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2754 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2755 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2756 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2757
2758 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2759 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2760 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2761 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2762 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2763 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2764 such as libgcrypt.
2765
2766 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2767 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2768 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2769 enabled.
2770
2771 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2772 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2773 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2774
2775 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2776 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2777 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2778 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2779 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2780 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2781
2782 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2783 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2784 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2785 behavior in a future release.
2786
2787 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2788
2789 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
2790
2791 Security related changes:
2792
2793 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2794 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2795 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2796 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
2797
2798 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2799 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2800
2801 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2802 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2803 Izbyshev.
2804
2805 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2806 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2807 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2808
2809 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2810
2811 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2812 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2813 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2814 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2815 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2816 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2817 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2818 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2819 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2820 14651
2821 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2822 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2823 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2824 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2825 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2826 conversion is given
2827 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2828 date
2829 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2830 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2831 scope with -O1 and higher
2832 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2833 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2834 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2835 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2836 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2837 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2838 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2839 horrible machine code)
2840 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2841 last constant.
2842 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2843 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2844 symbols
2845 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2846 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2847 defined
2848 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2849 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2850 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2851 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2852 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2853 fpscr.c'
2854 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2855 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2856 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2857 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2858 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2859 the base address
2860 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2861 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2862 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2863 open_verify
2864 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2865 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2866 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2867 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2868 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2869 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2870 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2871 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2872 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2873 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2874 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2875 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2876 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2877 dlopen
2878 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2879 AT_SECURE=1
2880 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2881 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2882 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2883 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2884 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2885 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2886 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2887 for Spanish with CLDR
2888 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2889 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2890 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2891 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2892 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2893 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2894 es_BO
2895 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2896 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
2897 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2898 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2899 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2900 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2901 dlopen failures
2902 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2903 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2904 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2905 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2906 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2907 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2908 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2909 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2910 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2911 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2912 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2913 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2914 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2915 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2916 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2917 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2918 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2919 makecontext
2920 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2921 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2922 required
2923 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2924 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2925 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2926 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2927 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2928 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2929 disabled
2930 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2931 failure
2932 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2933 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2934 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2935 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2936 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2937 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2938 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2939 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2940 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2941 and libc build with -Os)
2942 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2943 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2944 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2945 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2946 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2947 that changes /etc/passwd
2948 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2949 (CVE-2018-11237)
2950 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2951 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2952 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2953 posix/regcomp.c
2954 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2955 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2956 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2957 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2958 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2959 AT_SECURE
2960 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2961 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2962 parser.c
2963 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2964 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2965 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2966 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2967 directed rounding
2968 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2969 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2970 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2971 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2972 lookup
2973 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2974 interposition
2975 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2976 DSO boundaries.
2977 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2978 <linux/time.h>
2979 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2980 checking
2981 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2982 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2983 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2984 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2985 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2986 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2987 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2988 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2989 processors
2990 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
2991
2992 \f
2993 Version 2.27
2994
2995 Major new features:
2996
2997 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2998 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
2999 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
3000 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
3001 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
3002 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
3003 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
3004 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
3005 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
3006
3007 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
3008 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
3009 H.J. Lu from Intel.
3010
3011 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
3012
3013 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
3014
3015 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
3016 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
3017 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
3018 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
3019 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
3020 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
3021 from a security and performance perspective.
3022
3023 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
3024 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
3025 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
3026 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
3027
3028 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
3029 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
3030 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
3031 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
3032 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
3033
3034 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
3035 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
3036 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
3037 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
3038 _Float128.
3039
3040 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
3041 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
3042 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
3043
3044 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
3045
3046 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
3047 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
3048 pkey_get.
3049
3050 * The copy_file_range function was added.
3051
3052 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
3053
3054 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
3055 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
3056 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
3057
3058 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
3059 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
3060 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
3061 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
3062 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
3063 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
3064 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
3065
3066 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
3067 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
3068 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
3069 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
3070 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
3071 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
3072 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
3073
3074 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
3075 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
3076 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
3077 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
3078 respectively.
3079
3080 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
3081 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
3082 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
3083 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
3084
3085 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
3086 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
3087 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
3088
3089 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
3090 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
3091 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
3092
3093 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
3094 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
3095 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
3096
3097 - rv64imac lp64
3098 - rv64imafdc lp64
3099 - rv64imafdc lp64d
3100
3101 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3102
3103 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
3104 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
3105 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
3106 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
3107 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
3108 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
3109 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
3110 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
3111 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
3112 fix this.
3113
3114 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
3115 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
3116 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
3117
3118 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
3119 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
3120 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
3121 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
3122 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
3123 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
3124 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
3125 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
3126 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
3127 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
3128 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
3129 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
3130 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
3131 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
3132 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
3133 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
3134 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
3135 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
3136 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
3137 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
3138 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
3139 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
3140 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
3141 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
3142 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
3143 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
3144
3145 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
3146 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
3147
3148 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
3149 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
3150 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
3151 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
3152 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
3153 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
3154 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
3155
3156 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
3157 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
3158 exp10l for these functions instead.
3159
3160 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
3161 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
3162 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3163
3164 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
3165 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
3166 ignored.
3167
3168 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
3169 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
3170 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
3171 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
3172
3173 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
3174 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
3175
3176 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
3177 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
3178
3179 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
3180 programs.
3181
3182 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
3183
3184 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
3185 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
3186 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
3187 instead.
3188
3189 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
3190 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
3191 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
3192 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
3193 use, but predates the bits convention.
3194
3195 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3196
3197 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
3198 subdirectory.
3199
3200 Security related changes:
3201
3202 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
3203 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
3204 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
3205 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
3206 script.)
3207
3208 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3209 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
3210 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
3211 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3212
3213 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3214 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
3215 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
3216 of service.
3217
3218 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
3219 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
3220 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3221
3222 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3223 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
3224 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
3225 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
3226
3227 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
3228 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
3229 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
3230 Qualys.
3231
3232 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
3233 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
3234 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
3235 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
3236 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
3237
3238 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
3239 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
3240 current directory.
3241
3242 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
3243 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
3244 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
3245
3246 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
3247 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
3248 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
3249
3250 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3251 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
3252 small, instead of NULL.
3253
3254 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3255
3256 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
3257 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
3258 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
3259 locale
3260 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
3261 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
3262 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
3263 cases
3264 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3265 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
3266 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
3267 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
3268 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
3269 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
3270 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
3271 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
3272 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
3273 "Bangla"
3274 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
3275 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
3276 width Latin characters
3277 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
3278 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
3279 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
3280 letters
3281 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3282 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
3283 (CVE-2009-5064)
3284 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
3285 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
3286 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
3287 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
3288 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
3289 if malloc succeeded
3290 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
3291 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
3292 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
3293 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
3294 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
3295 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
3296 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
3297 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
3298 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
3299 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
3300 U+309A
3301 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
3302 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
3303 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
3304 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
3305 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
3306 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
3307 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
3308 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
3309 for Nicaragua
3310 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
3311 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
3312 are not found.
3313 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
3314 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
3315 access
3316 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
3317 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
3318 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
3319 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
3320 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
3321 __regcall calling convention
3322 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
3323 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
3324 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
3325 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
3326 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
3327 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
3328 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
3329 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
3330 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
3331 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
3332 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
3333 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
3334 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3335 locale
3336 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
3337 protector=all
3338 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
3339 wcwidth
3340 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
3341 consistency check failures
3342 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
3343 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
3344 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
3345 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
3346 PIE
3347 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
3348 locales
3349 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
3350 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
3351 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
3352 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
3353 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
3354 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
3355 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
3356 on memory allocation failure
3357 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
3358 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
3359 the suspect)
3360 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
3361 default (i386)
3362 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
3363 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
3364 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
3365 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
3366 instead of EAI_NODATA
3367 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
3368 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
3369 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
3370 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
3371 implementation
3372 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
3373 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
3374 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
3375 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
3376 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
3377 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
3378 allocation in syscall loops)
3379 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
3380 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
3381 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
3382 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
3383 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
3384 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
3385 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
3386 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
3387 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
3388 occur with -O3
3389 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
3390 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3391 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
3392 amounts)
3393 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
3394 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
3395 niu_NZ
3396 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
3397 checks
3398 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
3399 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
3400 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
3401 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
3402 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
3403 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
3404 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
3405 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
3406 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
3407 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
3408 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
3409 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
3410 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
3411 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
3412 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
3413 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
3414 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
3415 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
3416 parsing after OOM
3417 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
3418 object
3419 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
3420 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
3421 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
3422 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
3423 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
3424 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
3425 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
3426 ppc64le
3427 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
3428 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
3429 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
3430 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
3431 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
3432 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
3433 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
3434 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
3435 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
3436 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
3437 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
3438 math_force_eval
3439 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
3440 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3441 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3442 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3443 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3444 the svid compat wrapper
3445 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3446 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3447 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3448 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3449 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3450 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3451 --verbose.
3452 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3453 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3454 to 2.26
3455 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3456 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3457 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3458 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3459 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3460 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3461 (CVE-2017-15804)
3462 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3463 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3464 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3465 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3466 failure."
3467 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3468 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3469 -m32
3470 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3471 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3472 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3473 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3474 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3475 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3476 inside the ASCII printable range
3477 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3478 -mlong-double-64
3479 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3480 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3481 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3482 Internet
3483 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3484 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3485 backslash
3486 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3487 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3488 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3489 heaps in an arena
3490 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3491 networking interface
3492 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3493 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3494 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3495 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3496 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3497 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3498 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3499 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3500 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3501 order
3502 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3503 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3504 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3505 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3506 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3507 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3508 same as for Croatian
3509 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3510 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3511 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3512 for initial thread"
3513 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3514 SC_SSIZE_MAX
3515 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3516 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3517 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3518 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3519 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3520 (CVE-2017-1000408)
3521 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3522 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3523 modified in case of success
3524 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3525 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3526 success
3527 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3528 stack-protector=all
3529 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3530 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3531 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3532 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3533 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3534 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3535 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3536 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3537 adding it on top
3538 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3539 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3540 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3541 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3542 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3543 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3544 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3545 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3546 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3547 (CVE-2018-1000001)
3548 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3549 elision and tunables
3550 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3551 "invalid" exception
3552 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3553 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3554 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3555 exception
3556 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3557 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3558 power4
3559 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3560 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3561 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3562 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3563 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3564 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3565 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3566 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3567 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
3568
3569 \f
3570 Version 2.26
3571
3572 Major new features:
3573
3574 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3575 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3576 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3577 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3578 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3579 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3580 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3581
3582 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3583 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
3584 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3585 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3586 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3587 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3588 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
3589
3590 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3591 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3592 Egmont Koblinger.
3593
3594 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
3595
3596 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3597 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3598 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
3599
3600 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3601 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3602 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3603 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3604 object are still limited to six search domains.
3605
3606 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3607 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3608 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
3609
3610 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3611 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
3612
3613 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3614 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3615 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3616 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
3617
3618 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3619 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3620 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3621 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
3622
3623 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3624 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3625 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3626 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
3627
3628 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3629 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3630 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
3631
3632 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
3633 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3634 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3635 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
3636
3637 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
3638 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3639 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3640 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3641 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3642
3643 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3644 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3645 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3646 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3647 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3648 interfaces should be used instead.
3649
3650 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3651
3652 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3653 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3654 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3655 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3656 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3657 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3658 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3659 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3660
3661 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3662 removed.
3663
3664 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
3665 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
3666 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3667 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3668
3669 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3670 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3671 default.
3672
3673 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3674 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3675 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
3676 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3677 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
3678
3679 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3680 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3681 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3682 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3683
3684 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3685 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3686 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3687 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3688
3689 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3690 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
3691
3692 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3693 exported by accident.
3694
3695 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3696 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3697 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3698
3699 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3700 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3701 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3702 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3703
3704 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3705
3706 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3707
3708 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3709 free instead.
3710
3711 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3712 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3713
3714 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3715 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3716
3717 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3718 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3719 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3720 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3721 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3722 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3723 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3724 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3725
3726 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3727 synced with the kernel:
3728
3729 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3730 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3731
3732 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3733 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3734 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3735
3736 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3737 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3738
3739 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3740
3741 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3742 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3743 x86-32 and x86-64.)
3744
3745 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
3746
3747 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3748 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
3749
3750 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3751 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3752 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3753 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
3754 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
3755
3756 Security related changes:
3757
3758 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
3759 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3760
3761 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3762 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3763
3764 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3765 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3766 (CVE-2010-3192).
3767
3768 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3769 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
3770
3771 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3772
3773 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3774 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3775 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3776 fields
3777 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3778 (CVE-2010-3192)
3779 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3780 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3781 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3782 ld.bfd is available
3783 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3784 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3785 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3786 x86 and other generic code
3787 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3788 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3789 incorrect
3790 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3791 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3792 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3793 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3794 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3795 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3796 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3797 resolver
3798 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3799 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3800 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3801 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3802 chillu characters
3803 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3804 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3805 receiving data
3806 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3807 whitespace
3808 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3809 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3810 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3811 for Peru
3812 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3813 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3814 failures consistently
3815 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3816 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3817 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3818 frame-pointer on i386
3819 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3820 register
3821 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3822 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3823 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3824 generic c code is used
3825 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3826 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3827 around 4000
3828 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3829 (CVE-2017-12133)
3830 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3831 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3832 with -lieee
3833 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3834 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3835 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3836 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3837 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3838 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3839 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3840 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3841 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3842 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3843 remove()
3844 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3845 checked for errors.
3846 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3847 new posix_spawn implementation
3848 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3849 leads to lower CPU frequency
3850 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3851 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3852 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3853 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3854 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3855 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3856 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3857 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3858 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3859 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3860 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3861 not support gethostbyname4_r
3862 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3863 switching
3864 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3865 arenas
3866 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3867 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3868 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3869 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3870 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3871 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3872 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3873 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3874 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3875 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3876 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3877 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3878 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3879 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3880 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3881 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3882 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3883 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3884 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3885 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3886 retry value
3887 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3888 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3889 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3890 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3891 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3892 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3893 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3894 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3895 [21537] libc:
3896 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3897 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3898 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3899 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3900 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3901 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3902 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3903 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3904 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3905 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3906 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3907 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3908 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3909 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3910 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3911 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3912 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3913 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3914 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3915 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3916 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3917 issue on x86-64
3918 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3919 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3920 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3921 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3922 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3923 construction
3924 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3925 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3926 between_2_3
3927 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3928 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3929 conditions
3930 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3931 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3932 Hindi Locale
3933 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3934 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3935 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3936 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3937 locale
3938 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3939 leading to relocation crash
3940 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3941 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3942 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3943 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3944 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3945 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3946 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3947 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3948 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3949 locale
3950 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3951 locale
3952 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3953 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3954 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3955 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3956 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3957 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3958 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3959 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3960 strings
3961 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3962 protector=all
3963 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3964 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
3965 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3966 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3967 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3968 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3969 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3970 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3971 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3972 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3973 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3974 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3975 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3976 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3977 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3978 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3979 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3980 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3981 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3982 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3983 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3984 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3985 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3986 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3987 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3988 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3989 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3990 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3991 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3992 with unicode 9.0
3993 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3994 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3995 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3996 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3997 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
3998
3999 \f
4000 Version 2.25
4001
4002 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
4003 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
4004 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
4005 Library.
4006
4007 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4008 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
4009 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
4010 the GNU C Library.
4011
4012 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4013 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
4014 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
4015 the GNU C Library.
4016
4017 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
4018 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
4019 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
4020 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
4021 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
4022 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
4023 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
4024 will not.
4025
4026 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
4027 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
4028 many years.
4029
4030 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
4031 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
4032 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
4033
4034 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
4035 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
4036 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
4037 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
4038 problem.
4039
4040 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
4041 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
4042 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
4043
4044 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
4045 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
4046 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
4047 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
4048 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
4049 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
4050 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
4051 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
4052 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
4053 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
4054 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
4055 WINT_WIDTH.
4056
4057 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
4058
4059 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
4060
4061 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
4062 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
4063 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
4064
4065 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
4066 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
4067
4068 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
4069 fminmagf, fminmagl.
4070
4071 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
4072
4073 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
4074
4075 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
4076 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
4077
4078 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
4079
4080 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
4081 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
4082
4083 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
4084 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
4085
4086 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
4087 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
4088 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
4089
4090 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
4091 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
4092 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
4093 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
4094 effects of the memory clear).
4095
4096 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
4097 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
4098 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
4099 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
4100
4101 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
4102 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
4103 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
4104 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
4105 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
4106 if they are compiled or used with those options.
4107
4108 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
4109 have been added.
4110
4111 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
4112 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
4113 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
4114 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
4115 as large as several megabytes.
4116
4117 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
4118 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
4119 been removed.
4120
4121 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
4122 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
4123 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
4124 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
4125 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
4126 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
4127 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
4128
4129 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
4130 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
4131 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
4132 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
4133
4134 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
4135 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
4136 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
4137 Internet.
4138
4139 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
4140 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
4141 They were already unimplemented.
4142
4143 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
4144 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
4145 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
4146 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
4147
4148 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
4149 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
4150 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
4151 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
4152 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
4153
4154 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
4155 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
4156 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
4157 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
4158 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
4159
4160 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
4161 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
4162 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
4163 did not reflect that.
4164
4165 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
4166 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
4167 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
4168 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
4169 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
4170 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
4171 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
4172 'gcc/config.gcc'.
4173
4174 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
4175 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
4176 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
4177 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
4178
4179 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
4180 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
4181 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
4182 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
4183
4184 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
4185 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
4186 guarantees.
4187
4188 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
4189 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
4190 make state changes.
4191
4192 Security related changes:
4193
4194 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4195 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
4196 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
4197 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
4198 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
4199
4200 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
4201 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
4202 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
4203 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
4204 (CVE-2015-5180)
4205
4206 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4207
4208 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4209 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
4210 protector-all
4211 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
4212 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
4213 before it started waiting
4214 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
4215 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
4216 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
4217 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
4218 wrong type
4219 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
4220 library linked with pthread
4221 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
4222 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
4223 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
4224 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
4225 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
4226 after being __libc_memalign()'d
4227 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
4228 when it shouldn't
4229 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
4230 not
4231 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
4232 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
4233 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
4234 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
4235 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
4236 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
4237 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
4238 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
4239 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
4240 termination
4241 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
4242 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
4243 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
4244 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
4245 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
4246 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
4247 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
4248 causes a segmentation fault
4249 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
4250 linking
4251 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
4252 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
4253 uninitialized GOT
4254 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
4255 versions
4256 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
4257 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
4258 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
4259 is always true.
4260 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
4261 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
4262 modes
4263 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
4264 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
4265 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
4266 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
4267 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
4268 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
4269 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
4270 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
4271 libpthread.a
4272 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
4273 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
4274 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
4275 _res_hconf
4276 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
4277 information.
4278 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
4279 penalty
4280 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
4281 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
4282 cause transition penalty
4283 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
4284 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
4285 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
4286 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
4287 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
4288 mcount.oS)
4289 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
4290 Checking
4291 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
4292 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
4293 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
4294 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
4295 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
4296 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
4297 multi-arch
4298 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
4299 (RES_USEBSTRING)
4300 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
4301 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
4302 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
4303 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
4304 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
4305 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
4306 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
4307 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
4308 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
4309 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
4310 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
4311 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
4312 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
4313 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
4314 glibc
4315 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
4316 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
4317 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
4318 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
4319 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
4320 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
4321 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
4322 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
4323 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
4324 U+20AC), not same as GBK
4325 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
4326 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
4327 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
4328 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
4329 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
4330 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
4331 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
4332 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
4333 RES_USE_INET6
4334 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4335 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
4336 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
4337 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
4338 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
4339 wrong condition
4340 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4341 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
4342 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
4343 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
4344 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
4345 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
4346 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
4347 clang
4348 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
4349 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
4350 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
4351 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
4352 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4353 \f
4354 Version 2.24
4355
4356 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4357 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
4358 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
4359 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
4360 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
4361 architectures.
4362
4363 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
4364 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
4365 been included in previous releases.
4366
4367 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
4368 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
4369
4370 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
4371 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
4372 instead of “union wait”.
4373
4374 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
4375 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
4376 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
4377 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
4378 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
4379 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
4380 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
4381
4382 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
4383 API.
4384
4385 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
4386 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
4387 drop it.
4388
4389 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
4390 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
4391 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
4392 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
4393 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
4394 extensions.
4395
4396 Security related changes:
4397
4398 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
4399 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
4400 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
4401
4402 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
4403 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
4404 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
4405 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
4406
4407 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
4408 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
4409 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
4410
4411 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
4412 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
4413 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
4414
4415 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
4416 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
4417 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
4418 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
4419
4420 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4421
4422 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
4423 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
4424 of MS-DOS.
4425 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
4426 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
4427 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
4428 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
4429 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
4430 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
4431 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
4432 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
4433 CLDR data
4434 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
4435 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
4436 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
4437 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
4438 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
4439 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4440 romanisation
4441 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4442 and +/-
4443 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4444 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4445 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4446 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4447 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4448 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4449 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4450 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4451 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4452 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4453 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4454 all locales
4455 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4456 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4457 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4458 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4459 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4460 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4461 execute
4462 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4463 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4464 -Wsystem-headers
4465 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4466 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4467 Romanian locale data
4468 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4469 symbol
4470 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4471 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4472 language
4473 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4474 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4475 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4476 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4477 machine
4478 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4479 description
4480 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4481 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4482 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4483 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4484 when using RTLD_NEXT
4485 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4486 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4487 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4488 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4489 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4490 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4491 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4492 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4493 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4494 Excavator core
4495 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4496 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4497 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4498 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4499 double range
4500 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4501 part zero incorrect
4502 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4503 equality tests
4504 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4505 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4506 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4507 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4508 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4509 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4510 glibc-2.22
4511 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4512 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4513 'tst-numeric.c'
4514 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4515 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4516 low part
4517 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4518 result
4519 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4520 unaligned stack
4521 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4522 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4523 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4524 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4525 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4526 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4527 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4528 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4529 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4530 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4531 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4532 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4533 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4534 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4535 modes
4536 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4537 server addresses
4538 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4539 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4540 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4541 response to getaddrinfo
4542 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4543 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4544 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4545 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4546 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4547 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4548 sometimes incorrect
4549 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4550 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4551 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4552 record types
4553 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4554 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4555 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4556 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4557 (CVE-2016-3075)
4558 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4559 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4560 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4561 resolving symbols
4562 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4563 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4564 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4565 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4566 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4567 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4568 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4569 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4570 gethosts
4571 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4572 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4573 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4574 (CVE-2016-3706)
4575 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4576 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4577 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4578 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4579 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4580 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4581 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4582 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4583 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4584 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4585 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4586 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4587 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4588 executable
4589 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4590 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4591 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4592 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4593 XPG3
4594 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4595 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4596 (CVE-2016-4429)
4597 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4598 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4599 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4600 AS not supporting AVX512
4601 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4602 sNaN argument
4603 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4604 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4605 argument
4606 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4607 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4608 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4609 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4610 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4611 eax=0x80000001
4612 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4613 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4614 subnormals
4615 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4616 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4617 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4618 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4619 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4620 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4621 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4622 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4623 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4624 input
4625 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4626 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4627 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4628 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4629 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4630 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4631 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4632 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4633 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4634 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4635 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4636 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4637 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4638 double rounding
4639 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4640 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4641 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4642 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4643 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4644 (Only arm/linux)
4645 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4646 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4647 fallbacks
4648 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4649 "invalid" exceptions
4650 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4651 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4652 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4653 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4654 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4655 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4656 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4657 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4658 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
4659 \f
4660 Version 2.23
4661
4662 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4663 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4664 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4665 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4666 89, 16061, and 18568.
4667
4668 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4669 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4670 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4671 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4672 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4673 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4674 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4675
4676 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4677 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4678 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4679
4680 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4681 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4682 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4683 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4684 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4685 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4686 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4687
4688 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4689 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4690 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4691 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4692 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
4693 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
4694 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4695 Ericsson.)
4696
4697 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4698 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4699 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4700 independent of the GNU C Library.
4701
4702 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4703 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
4704
4705 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4706 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4707 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4708 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4709 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4710 Linux kernel.
4711
4712 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4713 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
4714
4715 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4716 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4717 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4718 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4719 defining their own copy.
4720
4721 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4722 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4723 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4724
4725 Security related changes:
4726
4727 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4728 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4729
4730 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4731 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4732 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4733 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4734 (CVE-2015-8777)
4735
4736 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4737 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4738
4739 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4740 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4741
4742 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4743 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
4744 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
4745
4746 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4747 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4748 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4749 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4750 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4751 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4752 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4753 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4754 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4755 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4756 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4757 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4758 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4759
4760 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4761
4762 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4763 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4764 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4765 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4766 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4767 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4768 use `mkstemp'
4769 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
4770 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
4771 overflow/underflow errors
4772 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4773 overflow/underflow
4774 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4775 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4776 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4777 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4778 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4779 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4780 are not contiguous
4781 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4782 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4783 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4784 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4785 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4786 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4787 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4788 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4789 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4790 all exceptions
4791 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4792 arguments
4793 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4794 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4795 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4796 should include
4797 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4798 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4799 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4800 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4801 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4802 GNU/Linux
4803 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4804 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4805 arguments
4806 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4807 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4808 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4809 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4810 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4811 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4812 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4813 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4814 rounding results
4815 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4816 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4817 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4818 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4819 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4820 fails
4821 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4822 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4823 block boundary
4824 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4825 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4826 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4827 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4828 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4829 4.7?
4830 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4831 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4832 (related to lock elision)
4833 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4834 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4835 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4836 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4837 (CVE-2015-8779)
4838 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4839 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4840 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4841 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4842 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4843 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4844 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4845 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4846 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4847 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4848 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4849 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4850 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4851 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4852 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4853 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4854 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4855 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4856 contains a vector instruction exception.
4857 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4858 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4859 locales
4860 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4861 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4862 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4863 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4864 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4865 missing break ?
4866 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4867 32bit processes
4868 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4869 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4870 infinity
4871 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4872 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4873 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4874 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4875 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4876 be forced unloaded
4877 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4878 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4879 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4880 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4881 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4882 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4883 statically too large
4884 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4885 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4886 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4887 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4888 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4889 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4890 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4891 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4892 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4893 FUTEX_SHARED
4894 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4895 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4896 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4897 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4898 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4899 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4900 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4901 opendir()
4902 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4903 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4904 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4905 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4906 signgam
4907 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4908 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4909 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4910 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4911 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4912 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4913 dependencies
4914 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4915 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4916 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4917 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4918 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4919 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4920 (CVE-2015-8776)
4921 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4922 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4923 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4924 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4925 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4926 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4927 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4928 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4929 contention
4930 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4931 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4932 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4933 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4934 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4935 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4936 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4937 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4938 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4939 rounding modes
4940 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4941 ILP32
4942 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4943 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4944 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4945 threshold
4946 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4947 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4948 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4949 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
4950 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4951 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4952 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4953 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4954 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4955 pthread_setaffinity_np
4956 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4957 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4958 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4959 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4960 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4961 prelink
4962 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4963 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4964 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4965 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4966 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4967 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4968 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4969 bits/mathcalls.h
4970 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4971 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4972 for C99-based standards
4973 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4974 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4975 math-only
4976 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4977 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4978 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4979 disabled
4980 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4981 "inexact" exceptions
4982 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4983 arguments
4984 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4985 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4986 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4987 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4988 rules
4989 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4990 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4991 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4992 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4993 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4994 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4995 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4996 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4997 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4998 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4999 from 32bit
5000 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
5001 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
5002 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
5003 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
5004 subnormals
5005 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
5006 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
5007 error on 32-bit architectures
5008 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
5009 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
5010 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
5011 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
5012 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
5013 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
5014 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
5015 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
5016 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
5017 -Os
5018 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
5019 CPU's.
5020 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
5021 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
5022 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
5023 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
5024 architectures
5025 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
5026 \f
5027 Version 2.22
5028
5029 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5030
5031 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
5032 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
5033 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
5034 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
5035 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
5036 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
5037 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
5038 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
5039 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
5040 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
5041 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
5042 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
5043 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
5044 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
5045 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
5046 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
5047 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
5048 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
5049 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
5050 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
5051
5052 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
5053 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
5054
5055 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
5056 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
5057 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
5058 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
5059 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
5060 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
5061
5062 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
5063 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
5064 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
5065 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
5066 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
5067
5068 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
5069 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
5070 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
5071
5072 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
5073 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
5074 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
5075 17998.
5076
5077 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
5078 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
5079 condition in some applications.
5080
5081 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
5082 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
5083 pow, powf.
5084 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
5085 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
5086 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
5087 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
5088 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
5089
5090 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
5091 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
5092 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
5093 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
5094
5095 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
5096 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
5097 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
5098
5099 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
5100 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
5101
5102 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
5103 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
5104 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
5105
5106 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
5107 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
5108 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
5109 \f
5110 Version 2.21
5111
5112 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5113
5114 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5115 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
5116 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
5117 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
5118 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
5119 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
5120 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
5121 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
5122 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
5123 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
5124 17892.
5125
5126 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
5127 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
5128 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
5129 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
5130 intended.
5131
5132 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
5133 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
5134 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
5135 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
5136 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
5137 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
5138
5139 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
5140
5141 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
5142 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
5143 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
5144
5145 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
5146 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
5147 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
5148 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
5149 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
5150 effects being visible outside transactions.
5151
5152 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
5153 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5154
5155 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
5156
5157 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
5158 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
5159 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
5160 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
5161 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
5162
5163 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
5164 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
5165
5166 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
5167 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
5168 format.
5169
5170 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5171 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5172 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5173
5174 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
5175 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
5176
5177 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
5178
5179 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
5180 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
5181 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
5182 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
5183
5184 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
5185 with newer versions of bison.
5186
5187 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
5188 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
5189 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
5190 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
5191 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
5192 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
5193 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
5194 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
5195 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
5196 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
5197 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
5198 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
5199 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
5200
5201 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
5202 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
5203 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
5204 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
5205 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
5206 \f
5207 Version 2.20
5208
5209 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5210
5211 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
5212 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
5213 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
5214 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
5215 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
5216 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
5217 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
5218 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
5219 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
5220 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
5221 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
5222 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
5223 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
5224 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
5225 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
5226
5227 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5228 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
5229 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
5230 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
5231 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
5232 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
5233 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
5234 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
5235 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
5236 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
5237
5238 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
5239 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
5240 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
5241 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
5242 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
5243
5244 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5245
5246 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5247 can be used with is 2.6.32.
5248
5249 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
5250 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
5251 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
5252 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
5253 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
5254 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
5255
5256 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
5257 from ports.
5258
5259 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
5260 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
5261 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
5262 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
5263 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
5264 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
5265 test macros defined.
5266
5267 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5268
5269 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
5270 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
5271 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
5272 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
5273 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
5274 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
5275 is not built.
5276
5277 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
5278 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
5279 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
5280 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
5281 invocation.
5282
5283 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
5284 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
5285 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
5286
5287 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
5288 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
5289 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
5290 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
5291
5292 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
5293 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
5294 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
5295 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
5296 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
5297 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
5298 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
5299 additional checks.
5300
5301 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
5302 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
5303 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
5304 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
5305 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
5306 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
5307 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
5308 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
5309 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
5310
5311 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
5312 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
5313 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
5314 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
5315 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
5316 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
5317
5318 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
5319 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
5320 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
5321 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
5322 \f
5323 Version 2.19
5324
5325 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5326
5327 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
5328 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
5329 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
5330 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
5331 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
5332 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
5333 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
5334 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
5335 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
5336 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
5337 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
5338 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
5339 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
5340 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
5341 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
5342 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
5343 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
5344 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
5345
5346 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
5347 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
5348
5349 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
5350 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
5351 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
5352 extension which uses __block.
5353
5354 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
5355 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
5356 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
5357 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
5358 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
5359
5360 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
5361 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
5362 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
5363 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
5364 if malloc fails.
5365
5366 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
5367 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
5368 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
5369 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
5370 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
5371
5372 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
5373 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
5374 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
5375
5376 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
5377 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
5378 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
5379 #15856, #15857).
5380
5381 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
5382 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
5383
5384 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
5385 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
5386
5387 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
5388
5389 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
5390 supported locales.
5391
5392 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
5393
5394 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
5395
5396 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
5397 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
5398 for which the C library was built.
5399
5400 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
5401 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
5402 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
5403 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
5404 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
5405 in the following circumstances:
5406
5407 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
5408
5409 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
5410 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
5411
5412 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
5413 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
5414
5415 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
5416 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
5417
5418 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
5419
5420 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
5421 transcendental functions have been introduced.
5422
5423 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
5424
5425 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
5426
5427 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
5428
5429 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
5430 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
5431 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
5432 disable some of those declarations.
5433
5434 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
5435 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
5436 that did nothing) has also been removed.
5437
5438 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
5439 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
5440
5441 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5442 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5443 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5444 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5445 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5446 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5447 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5448 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5449 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5450 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5451 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5452 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5453 require recompilation.
5454 \f
5455 Version 2.18
5456
5457 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5458
5459 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
5460 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5461 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
5462 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5463 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5464 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5465 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5466 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5467 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5468 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5469 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5470 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5471 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5472 15755, 15759.
5473
5474 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5475 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5476 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5477 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5478 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5479 understands and accepts the risks.
5480
5481 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5482 #15078).
5483
5484 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5485 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
5486
5487 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5488 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5489 destructor calls to glibc.
5490
5491 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5492 output.
5493
5494 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5495 non-x86 architectures.
5496
5497 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5498
5499 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5500
5501 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5502 Richard Henderson.
5503
5504 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5505
5506 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5507 Richard Henderson.
5508
5509 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5510 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5511
5512 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5513
5514 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5515 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
5516
5517 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5518 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
5519
5520 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5521 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5522 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5523
5524 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5525 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5526 attributes of a process.
5527
5528 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5529 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5530 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5531 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5532 mutexes.
5533
5534 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5535 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5536
5537 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5538 \f
5539 Version 2.17
5540
5541 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5542
5543 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
5544 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5545 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5546 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5547 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5548 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5549 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5550 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5551 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5552 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5553 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5554 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5555 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5556 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5557 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
5558
5559 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5560
5561 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5562 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
5563
5564 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5565 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5566
5567 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5568
5569 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5570 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5571 zEnterprise z196.
5572 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5573
5574 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5575 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5576 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5577
5578 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5579 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5580
5581 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5582 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5583
5584 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5585 can be used with is 2.6.16.
5586
5587 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5588 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5589
5590 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5591 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
5592 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5593 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
5594
5595 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5596 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5597
5598 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
5599 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
5600 default.
5601
5602 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5603 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5604 information in --help and --version output.
5605
5606 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5607 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5608 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5609
5610 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5611 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5612 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5613 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5614 when the mode is enabled.
5615
5616 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5617 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5618 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5619 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5620 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5621 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5622 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5623
5624 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5625 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
5626 \f
5627 Version 2.16
5628
5629 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5630
5631 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5632 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5633 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5634 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5635 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5636 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5637 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5638 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5639 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5640 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5641 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5642 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5643 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5644 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5645 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5646 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5647 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5648 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5649 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5650 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5651 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5652 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5653 14277, 14278.
5654
5655 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5656 configuring glibc with:
5657 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
5658 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
5659 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5660
5661 * ISO C11 support:
5662
5663 + define static_assert
5664
5665 + do not declare gets
5666
5667 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5668
5669 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5670 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5671 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5672 implementation.
5673
5674 + timespec_get added
5675
5676 + uchar.h support added
5677
5678 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5679
5680 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5681
5682 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
5683
5684 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
5685
5686 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5687 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5688
5689 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5690 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5691
5692 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5693 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5694 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5695 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5696 existing applications.
5697
5698 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
5699 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5700 before 2.6.
5701
5702 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5703 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5704 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5705
5706 * New locales: mag_IN
5707
5708 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5709 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5710 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5711 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5712 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
5713
5714 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5715
5716 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5717 and Will Schmidt.
5718
5719 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5720
5721 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5722 without a previously built glibc.
5723
5724 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5725 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5726
5727 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5728 now supported for ARM processors.
5729
5730 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5731 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5732 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5733
5734 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
5735
5736 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5737 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5738 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5739 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
5740
5741 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5742 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5743 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5744 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5745
5746 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5747 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5748 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5749 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5750 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5751
5752 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5753 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5754 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5755 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
5756 \f
5757 Version 2.15
5758
5759 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5760
5761 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5762 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5763 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5764 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5765 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5766 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5767 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
5768
5769 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5770 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5771
5772 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5773 and support for initgroups lookups.
5774 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5775
5776 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5777 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5778
5779 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5780 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5781
5782 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5783 on x86-32 and x86-64.
5784 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5785
5786 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
5787 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5788
5789 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5790 for x86-64 and x86-32.
5791 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5792
5793 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5794 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5795
5796 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5797 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5798
5799 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5800 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5801
5802 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5803 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5804
5805 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5806 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5807
5808 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5809 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5810
5811 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
5812
5813 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5814 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5815
5816 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5817 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
5818
5819 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
5820 \f
5821 Version 2.14
5822
5823 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5824
5825 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
5826 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
5827 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
5828 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
5829 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5830 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5831 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
5832 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5833 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
5834 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
5835
5836 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5837 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5838 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
5839 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
5840
5841 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
5842 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5843 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
5844 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5845
5846 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
5847 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
5848
5849 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
5850 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
5851
5852 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
5853
5854 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5855 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5856
5857 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5858 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5859 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5860 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
5861 \f
5862 Version 2.13
5863
5864 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5865
5866 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5867 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5868 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5869 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5870 12378, 12394, 12397
5871
5872 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
5873
5874 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
5875
5876 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5877 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
5878 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5879 \f
5880 Version 2.12
5881
5882 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5883
5884 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5885 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5886 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5887 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
5888 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5889 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5890 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5891 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
5892
5893 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
5894
5895 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5896
5897 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5898
5899 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5900 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5901 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5902
5903 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5904 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5905 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5906 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5907 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5908
5909 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
5910 \f
5911 Version 2.11
5912
5913 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5914
5915 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5916 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5917 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5918 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5919 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5920 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5921
5922 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5923 mkostemps64
5924 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5925
5926 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
5927 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5928
5929 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5930 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5931
5932 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5933
5934 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
5935 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
5936 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
5937 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5938
5939 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
5940 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5941
5942 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5943 strstr, strcasestr.
5944 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5945
5946 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5947 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5948
5949 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5950 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5951
5952 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5953 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5954
5955 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5956 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5957 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5958 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5959 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5960 necessity is every process again.
5961 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5962
5963 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5964 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5965
5966 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5967 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5968
5969 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5970 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5971 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5972
5973 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
5974 \f
5975 Version 2.10
5976
5977 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5978
5979 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5980 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5981 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5982 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5983 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5984
5985 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
5986 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5987
5988 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
5989 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5990
5991 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
5992 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
5993
5994 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5995 now in POSIX.
5996
5997 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
5998 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5999
6000 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
6001 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6002
6003 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
6004 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6005
6006 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
6007 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6008
6009 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
6010 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
6011 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6012
6013 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
6014
6015 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
6016 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6017
6018 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
6019 and extend existing format specifiers.
6020 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6021
6022 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
6023 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6024
6025 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
6026 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
6027 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
6028 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
6029 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
6030 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6031 \f
6032 Version 2.9
6033
6034 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6035
6036 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
6037 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
6038 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
6039 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
6040 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
6041
6042 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
6043 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6044
6045 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
6046 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
6047
6048 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
6049 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6050
6051 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
6052 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
6053 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6054
6055 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
6056 Implemented by Eric Blake.
6057
6058 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
6059
6060 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
6061 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6062
6063 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
6064 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
6065 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
6066 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6067
6068 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
6069 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6070
6071 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
6072 Sinhala)
6073 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
6074
6075 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
6076 \f
6077 Version 2.8
6078
6079 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6080
6081 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
6082 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
6083 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
6084 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
6085 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
6086 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
6087 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
6088
6089 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
6090
6091 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
6092
6093 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
6094 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
6095
6096 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
6097
6098 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
6099 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6100
6101 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
6102 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6103
6104 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
6105 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
6106 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6107
6108 * Faster memset for x86-64.
6109 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
6110
6111 * Faster memcpy on x86.
6112 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6113
6114 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
6115 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6116
6117 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
6118 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6119 \f
6120 Version 2.7
6121
6122 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6123
6124 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
6125 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
6126 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
6127 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
6128 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
6129
6130 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
6131 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6132
6133 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6134
6135 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
6136 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
6137 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6138
6139 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
6140 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6141
6142 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
6143 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6144
6145 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6146
6147 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
6148 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6149
6150 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
6151 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6152
6153 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
6154 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6155
6156 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6157
6158 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
6159 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6160
6161 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
6162 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
6163 yo_NG.
6164
6165 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
6166 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6167 \f
6168 Version 2.6
6169
6170 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6171
6172 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
6173 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
6174 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
6175 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
6176 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
6177 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
6178 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
6179 4702, 4858
6180
6181 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
6182
6183 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
6184
6185 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6186 \f
6187 Version 2.5
6188
6189 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6190
6191 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
6192 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
6193 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
6194 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
6195 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
6196 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
6197 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
6198 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
6199 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
6200
6201 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
6202 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
6203 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6204
6205 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
6206 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6207
6208 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
6209
6210 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
6211
6212 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
6213 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
6214 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
6215 site might have problems with the default behavior.
6216 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6217
6218 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
6219 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
6220 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
6221 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6222
6223 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
6224 Ulrich Drepper.
6225
6226 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6227
6228 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
6229 Ulrich Drepper.
6230
6231 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
6232
6233 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
6234 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
6235 \f
6236 Version 2.4
6237
6238 * More overflow detection functions.
6239
6240 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
6241 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
6242
6243 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
6244 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
6245 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
6246 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
6247 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
6248 by Masahide Washizawa.
6249
6250 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
6251 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6252
6253 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
6254 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
6255 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
6256 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
6257
6258 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
6259 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
6260
6261 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
6262
6263 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
6264 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
6265 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
6266
6267 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
6268 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
6269
6270 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
6271 for compatibility with some other systems.
6272
6273 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
6274 \f
6275 Version 2.3.6
6276
6277 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6278
6279 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
6280 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
6281 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
6282 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
6283 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
6284 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
6285
6286 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6287
6288 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
6289
6290 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
6291 \f
6292 Version 2.3.5
6293
6294 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6295
6296 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
6297 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
6298 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
6299 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
6300
6301 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6302 \f
6303 Version 2.3.4
6304
6305 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
6306 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6307
6308 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
6309 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
6310 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6311
6312 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
6313 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
6314
6315 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
6316 efficiently.
6317 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6318
6319 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
6320 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
6321 handling data.
6322
6323 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
6324 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
6325 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6326
6327 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
6328 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6329
6330 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
6331 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
6332 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
6333 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6334
6335 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
6336 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
6337 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
6338 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6339
6340 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
6341 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
6342 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
6343 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
6344 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
6345 \f
6346 Version 2.3.3
6347
6348 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
6349 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
6350
6351 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
6352 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
6353
6354 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
6355 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
6356
6357 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
6358 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6359
6360 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
6361 by Roland McGrath.
6362
6363 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
6364 and Ulrich Drepper.
6365
6366 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
6367 RFC 3484.
6368 \f
6369 Version 2.3.2
6370
6371 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
6372 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
6373 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
6374 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
6375 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
6376 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
6377 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
6378 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
6379 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
6380
6381 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
6382 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
6383 and are now also available on the Hurd.
6384
6385 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
6386
6387 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
6388 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
6389
6390 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
6391 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
6392
6393 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
6394
6395 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
6396 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
6397
6398 * With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
6399 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
6400 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
6401 of weak definition in ld.so.
6402
6403 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
6404 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
6405
6406 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
6407 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
6408 \f
6409 Version 2.3
6410
6411 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
6412 charsets.
6413
6414 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
6415 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
6416
6417 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
6418 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
6419
6420 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
6421 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
6422
6423 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
6424 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
6425 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6426
6427 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
6428 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
6429
6430 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
6431 implementation of regex.
6432
6433 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
6434 Unicode 3.2.
6435
6436 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
6437 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
6438
6439 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
6440 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6441 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
6442
6443 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
6444 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
6445
6446 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6447 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6448 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
6449
6450 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6451 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6452
6453 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6454 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6455 and Ulrich Drepper.
6456
6457 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
6458 \f
6459 Version 2.2.6
6460
6461 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6462 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6463
6464 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6465 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
6466 \f
6467 Version 2.2.5
6468
6469 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6470 128-bit long double format.
6471
6472 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6473 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
6474
6475 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
6476
6477 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6478
6479 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6480 as well.
6481
6482 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6483 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
6484
6485 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
6486 \f
6487 Version 2.2.4
6488
6489 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
6490 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
6491
6492 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6493 support Unicode 3.1.
6494
6495 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6496 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
6497
6498 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
6499
6500 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
6501 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6502 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6503
6504 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6505 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6506
6507 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6508 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
6509
6510 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
6511 \f
6512 Version 2.2.3
6513
6514 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
6515 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6516 in float, double, and long double format.
6517
6518 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
6519 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6520 128-bit long double format.
6521
6522 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6523 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6524 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6525 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6526
6527 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6528 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6529 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6530
6531 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6532 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
6533
6534 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6535 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
6536
6537 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6538 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6539 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
6540
6541 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6542 family of functions for Linux/S390.
6543
6544 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6545 of functions for Linux/x86.
6546
6547 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
6548 \f
6549 Version 2.2.2
6550
6551 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
6552 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6553 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6554 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6555 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6556 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6557 other headers.
6558
6559 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6560 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6561
6562 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6563 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6564 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6565 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6566
6567 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6568 locales. While
6569
6570 locale -a
6571
6572 only lists the names of the supported locales
6573
6574 locale -a --verbose
6575
6576 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6577 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6578 \f
6579 Version 2.2.1
6580
6581 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6582 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6583 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6584 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6585 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6586
6587 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6588
6589 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6590
6591 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
6592
6593 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6594 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6595 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
6596
6597 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6598 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6599
6600 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6601 changed from the default "C" locale.
6602
6603 * The usual bug fixes.
6604 \f
6605 Version 2.2
6606
6607 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6608 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6609 is in progress.
6610
6611 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6612
6613 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
6614
6615 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6616 obviously requires a database library being available.
6617
6618 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6619
6620 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
6621
6622 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6623 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6624
6625 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6626
6627 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6628 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6629 and Mark Kettenis.
6630
6631 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6632 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6633 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
6634
6635 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
6636 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6637
6638 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6639 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6640 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6641
6642 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6643 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6644 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6645 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6646
6647 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6648 structures for the wide character tables.
6649
6650 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6651
6652 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
6653
6654 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6655
6656 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6657 and Yutaka Niibe.
6658
6659 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6660
6661 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6662
6663 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6664
6665 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6666
6667 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6668
6669 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6670 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6671 implemented for Linux.
6672
6673 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6674 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6675 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6676 versions.
6677
6678 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6679 Masahide Washizawa.
6680
6681 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
6682 \f
6683 Version 2.1.3
6684
6685 * bug fixes
6686
6687 \f
6688 Version 2.1.2
6689
6690 * bug fixes
6691
6692 \f
6693 Version 2.1.1
6694
6695 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6696
6697 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6698
6699 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
6700
6701 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6702
6703 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
6704
6705 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
6706
6707 * Update timezone data files.
6708
6709 * lots of charmaps corrections
6710
6711 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
6712
6713 \f
6714 Version 2.1
6715
6716 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6717 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6718 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6719 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6720 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6721 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6722
6723 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
6724 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6725
6726 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
6727 symbol level.
6728
6729 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
6730 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
6731
6732 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
6733
6734 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
6735 numbers.
6736
6737 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
6738
6739 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6740 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
6741
6742 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6743 library.
6744
6745 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
6746 functions from ISO C 9X.
6747
6748 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6749 real valued functions.
6750
6751 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
6752
6753 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6754
6755 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
6756
6757 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
6758
6759 * Optimized string functions have been added.
6760
6761 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
6762
6763 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6764
6765 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6766 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6767
6768 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6769 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6770
6771 user system wall
6772
6773 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
6774
6775 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
6776
6777 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
6778
6779 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6780
6781 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6782
6783 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
6784
6785 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
6786 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
6787 horribly slow.
6788
6789 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6790 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
6791
6792 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
6793
6794 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
6795
6796 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6797 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6798
6799 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
6800
6801 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6802 Bambrough.
6803
6804 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6805 latest draft standards.
6806
6807 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
6808
6809 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6810 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6811 addseverity NEW: Unix98
6812 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
6813 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6814 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6815 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6816 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6817 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6818 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6819 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6820 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6821 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6822 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
6823 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6824 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6825 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
6826 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6827 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6828 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6829 cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
6830 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6831 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6832 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6833 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6834 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6835 capget NEW: kernel
6836 capset NEW: kernel
6837 carg NEW: ISO C 9x
6838 cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
6839 cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
6840 casin NEW: ISO C 9x
6841 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6842 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6843 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6844 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6845 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6846 catan NEW: ISO C 9x
6847 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6848 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6849 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6850 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6851 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6852 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6853 ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
6854 ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6855 ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6856 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6857 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6858 ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6859 cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
6860 cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
6861 cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
6862 cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
6863 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6864 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6865 clearerr_locked REMOVED
6866 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6867 clog NEW: ISO C 9x
6868 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6869 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6870 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6871 clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
6872 clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
6873 conj NEW: ISO C 9x
6874 conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
6875 conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
6876 cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
6877 cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
6878 cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
6879 cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
6880 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6881 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6882 creal NEW: ISO C 9x
6883 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6884 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6885 creat64 NEW: LFS
6886 csin NEW: ISO C 9x
6887 csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6888 csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6889 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6890 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6891 csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6892 csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
6893 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6894 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6895 ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
6896 ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6897 ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6898 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6899 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6900 ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6901 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6902 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6903 endutxent NEW: Unix98
6904 exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6905 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6906 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6907 exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6908 exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6909 exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6910 fattach NEW: STREAMS
6911 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6912 fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
6913 fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
6914 fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
6915 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6916 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6917 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6918 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6919 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6920 feof_locked REMOVED
6921 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6922 ferror_locked REMOVED
6923 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6924 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6925 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6926 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6927 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6928 fflush_locked REMOVED
6929 ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
6930 ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
6931 fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
6932 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6933 fileno_locked REMOVED
6934 fma NEW: ISO C 9x
6935 fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6936 fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
6937 fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
6938 fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
6939 fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
6940 fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
6941 fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
6942 fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
6943 fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
6944 fopen64 NEW: LFS
6945 fputc_locked REMOVED
6946 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6947 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6948 freopen64 NEW: LFS
6949 fseeko NEW: Unix98
6950 fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
6951 fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
6952 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6953 fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
6954 ftello NEW: Unix98
6955 ftello64 NEW: LFS
6956 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6957 ftw64 NEW: LFS
6958 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6959 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6960 gamma_r REMOVED
6961 gammaf_r REMOVED
6962 gammal_r REMOVED
6963 getchar_locked REMOVED
6964 getdate NEW: Unix98
6965 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6966 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6967 getmsg NEW: STREAMS
6968 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
6969 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
6970 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6971 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6972 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6973 getutxent NEW: Unix98
6974 getutxid NEW: Unix98
6975 getutxline NEW: Unix98
6976 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6977 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6978 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6979 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6980 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6981 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6982 iconv NEW: iconv
6983 iconv_close NEW: iconv
6984 iconv_open NEW: iconv
6985 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6986 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6987 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6988 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6989 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6990 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6991 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6992 isastream NEW: STREAMS
6993 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
6994 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6995 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6996 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6997 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6998 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6999 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
7000 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
7001 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
7002 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
7003 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7004 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7005 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7006 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
7007 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7008 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7009 log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
7010 log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
7011 log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
7012 lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7013 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7014 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7015 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
7016 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7017 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7018 lseek64 NEW: LFS
7019 makecontext NEW: Unix98
7020 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
7021 mmap64 NEW: LFS
7022 moncontrol REMOVED
7023 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
7024 nan NEW: ISO C 9x
7025 nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7026 nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
7027 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
7028 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7029 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7030 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
7031 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
7032 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
7033 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
7034 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
7035 nftw NEW: Unix98
7036 nftw64 NEW: LFS
7037 open64 NEW: LFS
7038 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
7039 pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
7040 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
7041 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
7042 pread NEW: Unix98
7043 pread64 NEW: LFS
7044 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
7045 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
7046 profil_counter REMOVED
7047 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
7048 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
7049 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
7050 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
7051 putc_locked REMOVED
7052 putchar_locked REMOVED
7053 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
7054 putmsg NEW: STREAMS
7055 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
7056 pututxline NEW: Unix98
7057 pwrite NEW: Unix98
7058 pwrite64 NEW: LFS
7059 readdir64 NEW: LFS
7060 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
7061 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
7062 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
7063 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
7064 round NEW: ISO C 9x
7065 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7066 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7067 rtime NEW: GNU ext.
7068 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
7069 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
7070 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
7071 scandir64 NEW: LFS
7072 sendfile NEW: kernel
7073 setcontext NEW: Unix98
7074 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
7075 setutxent NEW: Unix98
7076 sighold NEW: Unix98
7077 sigignore NEW: Unix98
7078 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
7079 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
7080 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
7081 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
7082 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
7083 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
7084 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
7085 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
7086 statfs64 NEW: LFS
7087 statvfs NEW: Unix98
7088 statvfs64 NEW: LFS
7089 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
7090 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7091 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7092 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
7093 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
7094 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
7095 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
7096 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
7097 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
7098 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
7099 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
7100 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
7101 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
7102 tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
7103 trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
7104 truncate64 NEW: LFS
7105 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
7106 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
7107 umount2 NEW: kernel
7108 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7109 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
7110 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
7111 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
7112 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
7113 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
7114 waitid NEW: Unix98
7115 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7116 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7117 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
7118 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7119 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
7120 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
7121 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7122 wcswcs NEW: Unix98
7123 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
7124 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
7125 write_profiling REMOVED
7126 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
7127 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
7128 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
7129 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
7130 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
7131 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
7132 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
7133 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
7134 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
7135 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
7136 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
7137 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
7138 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
7139 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
7140 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
7141 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
7142 \f
7143 Version 2.0.6
7144
7145 * more bug fixes
7146
7147 \f
7148 Version 2.0.5
7149
7150 * more bug fixes
7151
7152 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
7153
7154 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
7155
7156 * rewrite of cbrt function
7157
7158 * update of timezone data
7159 \f
7160 Version 2.0.4
7161
7162 * more bug fixes
7163 \f
7164 Version 2.0.3
7165
7166 * more bug fixes
7167 \f
7168 Version 2.0.2
7169
7170 * more bug fixes
7171
7172 * add atoll function
7173
7174 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
7175
7176 * fix math functions
7177 \f
7178 Version 2.0.1
7179
7180 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
7181
7182 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
7183
7184 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
7185 the ELF dynamic loader.
7186
7187 * support for parallel builds is improved
7188 \f
7189 Version 2.0
7190
7191 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
7192 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
7193 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
7194
7195 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
7196 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
7197 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
7198 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
7199 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
7200 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
7201 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
7202 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
7203 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
7204 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
7205 files in the ELF format.
7206
7207 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
7208 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
7209
7210 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
7211 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
7212 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
7213 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
7214 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
7215 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
7216 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
7217 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
7218 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
7219 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
7220 about dynamically linked binaries.
7221
7222 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
7223 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
7224 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
7225 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
7226 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
7227
7228 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
7229 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
7230 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
7231 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
7232 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
7233
7234 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
7235
7236 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
7237 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
7238 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
7239 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
7240 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
7241 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
7242 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
7243 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
7244 NSS services available.
7245
7246 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
7247 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
7248 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
7249
7250 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
7251 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
7252 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
7253
7254 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
7255 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
7256 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
7257 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
7258
7259 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
7260 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
7261 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
7262
7263 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
7264 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
7265 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
7266
7267 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
7268 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
7269
7270 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
7271 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
7272 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
7273 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
7274
7275 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
7276 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
7277 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
7278
7279 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
7280 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
7281 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
7282 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
7283 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
7284 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
7285 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
7286 the header file <printf.h> for details.
7287
7288 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
7289 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
7290 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
7291 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
7292 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
7293 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
7294 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
7295
7296 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
7297 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
7298 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
7299 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
7300 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
7301 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
7302
7303 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
7304 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7305
7306 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
7307 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
7308 NSS scheme used in glibc.
7309
7310 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
7311
7312 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
7313 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
7314 their use is discouraged.
7315
7316 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
7317 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
7318
7319 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
7320 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
7321
7322 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
7323 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
7324
7325 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
7326 see <dirent.h>.
7327
7328 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
7329 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
7330 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
7331 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
7332 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
7333
7334 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
7335 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
7336 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
7337 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
7338
7339 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
7340 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
7341
7342 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
7343 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
7344 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
7345 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
7346 number generator.
7347
7348 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
7349 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
7350
7351 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
7352 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
7353
7354 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
7355 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
7356 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
7357 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
7358
7359 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
7360
7361 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
7362 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
7363 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
7364
7365 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
7366 for arithmetic and string handling.
7367
7368 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
7369 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
7370 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
7371 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
7372
7373 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
7374 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
7375 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
7376 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
7377 programs already written to use it.)
7378
7379 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
7380 constants.
7381
7382 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
7383 with 4.4 BSD.
7384
7385 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
7386 a given effective group ID.
7387
7388 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
7389 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
7390 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
7391 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
7392
7393 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
7394 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
7395 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
7396 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
7397 doing the same thing.
7398
7399 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
7400 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
7401
7402 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
7403 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
7404
7405 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
7406
7407 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
7408 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
7409 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
7410 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
7411 `-ldb' to get these functions.
7412
7413 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
7414 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
7415
7416 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
7417 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
7418 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
7419 function.
7420
7421 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
7422
7423 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
7424 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
7425 strings.
7426
7427 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
7428 and writing the utmp file.
7429
7430 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
7431 Thorsten Kukuk.
7432
7433 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
7434 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
7435 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
7436
7437 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
7438 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
7439
7440 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7441 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7442 specification.
7443
7444 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7445 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7446 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7447 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7448
7449 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7450 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7451 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7452
7453 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7454 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7455 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7456 expression matcher.
7457
7458 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7459 functionality.
7460
7461 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7462 by Ulrich Drepper.
7463
7464 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7465
7466 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7467 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7468 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
7469 \f
7470 Version 1.09
7471
7472 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7473
7474 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7475 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7476
7477 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7478 want to put themselves in the background.
7479
7480 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7481 run without an operating system.
7482
7483 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7484 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7485
7486 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7487 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7488
7489 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7490
7491 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7492 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7493 have YP (aka NIS).
7494
7495 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7496 conventions.
7497
7498 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7499 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7500 \f
7501 Version 1.08
7502
7503 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7504 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7505 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7506
7507 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7508 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7509
7510 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7511 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7512
7513 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7514
7515 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7516
7517 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7518 compatibility.
7519
7520 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7521 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7522 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7523
7524 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7525
7526 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7527 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7528 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7529
7530 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7531 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7532 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7533 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7534 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7535 on a block).
7536
7537 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7538 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7539 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7540 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7541 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7542 cross-compiler.
7543
7544 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7545 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7546 \f
7547 Version 1.07
7548
7549 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7550 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7551
7552 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7553 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7554 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7555
7556 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7557 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7558 address of the last character written.
7559
7560 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7561 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7562
7563 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7564 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7565
7566 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7567 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7568 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7569 you dereference this pointer.
7570
7571 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7572 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7573
7574 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7575 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7576 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7577 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7578
7579 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7580 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7581 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7582 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7583 \f
7584 Version 1.06
7585
7586 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7587 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7588 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7589 in Emacs or the `info' program.
7590 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
7591
7592 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7593
7594 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7595
7596 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7597 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7598
7599 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7600 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7601
7602 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7603 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7604
7605 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7606 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7607 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7608 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7609 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7610
7611 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7612 to the error code in `errno'.
7613
7614 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7615 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7616 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7617 malloc'd string.
7618
7619 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7620 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7621 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7622
7623 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7624 uniquely-named temporary file.
7625 \f
7626 Version 1.05
7627
7628 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7629 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7630 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7631
7632 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7633 characters.
7634
7635 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7636 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7637
7638 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7639 \f
7640 Version 1.04
7641
7642 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7643 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7644 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7645 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7646
7647 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7648 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7649 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7650
7651 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7652 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7653
7654 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7655 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7656 made itself into a shared library.
7657
7658 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7659 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7660
7661 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7662 with limited length.
7663
7664 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7665
7666 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7667
7668 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7669
7670 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7671 function for traversing a directory tree.
7672
7673 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7674 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7675 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7676 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7677
7678 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7679 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7680
7681 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7682
7683 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7684 things to your strings.
7685
7686 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7687
7688 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7689 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7690 supporting those systems.
7691
7692 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7693 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7694 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7695 configuration files.
7696
7697 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7698 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7699
7700 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
7701 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7702 in <strings.h>.)
7703
7704 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7705 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7706 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7707 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7708 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7709 required storage is not available.
7710
7711 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7712 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
7713
7714 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7715 latest files released from Berkeley.
7716 \f
7717 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
7718 Copying conditions:
7719
7720 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
7721 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
7722 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
7723 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
7724
7725 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
7726 of this document, or of portions of it,
7727 under the above conditions, provided also that they
7728 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
7729 \f
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